range [A-Z] bug

[Toby Kelsey]

I discovered that the range pattern '[A-Z]*' matches the filename 'test' but not
'atest', which appears to be a bug.

This is with bash version "3.00.16(1)-release" and locale "en_GB.UTF-8".

The range appears to match any lowercase letter except for 'a':

~> cd /tmp
/tmp> mkdir q
/tmp> cd q
/tmp/q> touch a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
/tmp/q> echo [A-Z]
b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
/tmp/q> echo *
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Toby


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Re: range [A-Z] bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Toby Kelsey on 6/16/2006 6:02 AM:
> I discovered that the range pattern '[A-Z]*' matches the filename 'test'
> but not
> 'atest', which appears to be a bug.

Not a bug, but your setting of locales.  Try repeating the test when
LC_ALL=C is in your environment, to see the difference.  Some locales,
such as en_US.utf8, intentionally do case folding in ranges, so that [A-Z]
is interpreted as [AbBcC...zZ].

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