"Jon Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 05:30:45PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > I seemed to have found a bug in bash's globbing behavior. > > > > Can someone explain to me how the file functions-sql.xml can possibly > > be included in the ls command below? > > [ command pattern was [E-G]*.xml, output included a file starting with 'f' ] > > Is it possible that you have your locale (or one of the related environment > variables) set to something other than C? I don't get similar behavior by > default from bash on my computer, but if I set LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 I do. > > What's happening there is that the sort order for [] ranges is changed so > that instead of being EFG ... efg, it's eEfFgG, and f is the the range > between E and G. If this is undesired behavior, you may want to set > LC_COLLATE=C.
Great! Thanks for the explanation. jas.
