On 2008-11-20, grendelos wrote:
>
> So this is really bugging me. Why is [a-z] not case sensitive, but [A-Z] is?
> For example:
>
> # ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 20 12:22 xa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 20 12:22 xA
>
> # ls -l x[a-z]
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 20 12:22 xa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 20 12:22 xA
>
> # ls -l x[A-Z]
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 20 12:22 xA
>
> Any ideas?
You are using a locale that conflates upper- and lowercase as
aAbBcC...yYzZ.
Try it with: export LC_ALL=C
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