Eric Blake wrote: > According Alan Mackenzie: > | % ls [A-Z]* > | . Sadly, ls ignores my intentions and undiscerningly prints a list of > | all files whose names begin with a letter, big or small. > > Actually, it follows your (unintended) directions, thanks to your current > locale, which does a collation sort. You aren't doing [A-Za-z], but > [AaBb...Z], because your current locale prefers case-insensitive > collation. Change your locale (try LC_COLLATE=C or LC_ALL=C) to see the > difference.
Or in the new expression syntax say that you are looking for upper case letters explicitly. ls -d [[:upper:]]* That should work regardless of locale setting. Bob
