Public bug reported:
do this in a gash (temporary) directory:
touch A a B b
ls [A-Z]*
you get:-
A b B
What most people (especially unix users with >25 years experience) is:-
A B
I found out about this by accident yesterday by doing "rm [A-Z]*" in a
directory expecting only files with a initial uppercase letter to be
removed. You can imagine my surprise when every file (except those
starting in 'a') where removed. Fortunately most of the files were
either redundant or backed up, but it still caused me a completely
unnecessary hour's work to restore the damage.
Obviously the collating sequence is aAbBcCdD... but that really does
*not* make it right. Other linux distros do not have this problem, but
then they seem to set:
export LC_COLLATE=C
as standard, which is missing in a standard ubuntu installation
(6.06lts -> 7.04)
That *is* the work around, but I would respectfully suggest that you set
it as standard before someone destroys something irreplaceable!
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Caseless collate sequence in en_GB.UTF8
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120687
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