Re: anomalous behaviour of ls command

[Ilkka Virta]

On 30.1. 20:54, ken young wrote:
>         I have a directory with four files A Z a z only.
>         "ls [A-Z]" displays only 3 files A Z   z       ;a is missing
>         "ls [a-z]" displays only 3 files A   a z       ;Z is missing

Basically, your locale orders the letters as aAbBcC...yYzZ, so Z comes 
after z and [a-z] misses it. Similarly for a and [A-Z]. You can see the 
ordering if you do 'echo *' or such.

'shopt -s globasciiranges' should make [a-z] only match the 26 ASCII 
lowercase letters, and 'shopt -s nocaseglob' should make the globs match 
regardless of lettercase (it would also make a* match A).


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