On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 02:48:21PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > $ ls [a-c] > > a A b B c > > The expression [a-c] is really like saying [aAbBc] in your active > locale. Using locale based character ranges outside of the C locale > is problematic and I always avoid them.
It's even worse on some systems: imadev:/tmp/greg$ ls [a-c] A a Á á À à Â â Ä ä Å å Ã ã Æ æ B b C c Never use character range expressions outside of the C locale. They are implementation-defined, meaning you get totally unexpected results.
