I gather that the default collation sequence compiled into glibc in Red Hat 7.2 or later is whatever comes with en_US, which basically tries to make the system case insensitive in many respects. I suspect it's trying to be more appealing to people migrating from Windows. <shrug>
One symptom is that "echo [A-Z]*" is the same as "echo [A-Za-z]*" !!! To revert to traditional behaviour, put this into your /etc/profile.d/local.sh: LC_COLLATE="C" export LC_COLLATE I stumbled over this when sending a set of files to the printer, and found every file printed twice. A colleague at work knew more of the background, and the fix. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
