Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> So, where is the range specified?
Somewhere in the depts of libc.
Bob
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On 2012-02-06 11:50:16 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > But the grep man page still says:
> >
> > Within a bracket expression, a range expression consists of two
> > characters separated by a hyphen. It matches any single character that
> > sorts between the
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > The collation sequence of [a-z] in dictionary ordering is really
> > "aAbBcC...xXyYzZ" and not "abc...z". So when you say "[a-z]" you are
> > getting "aAbBcC...xXyYz" without 'Z' and when you say "[A-Z]" you are
> > really getting "AbBcC...xXyYzZ" wit
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:15:14 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote:
> On Ne 05-02-12 | 23:04, Sven Joachim wrote:
(...)
>> > The "^[A-Z]" range will never match line beginning with a, since the
>> > range matches only uppercase characters.
>>
>> Not quite true, this very much depends on the locale.
>>
>> S
On 2012-02-05 17:55:48 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> The collation sequence of [a-z] in dictionary ordering is really
> "aAbBcC...xXyYzZ" and not "abc...z". So when you say "[a-z]" you are
> getting "aAbBcC...xXyYz" without 'Z' and when you say "[A-Z]" you are
> really getting "AbBcC...xXyYzZ" with '
On Sunday 05 February 2012 19:55:48 Bob Proulx wrote:
> Neal Murphy wrote:
> > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not
> > doing what it should.
>
> You don't like it and I don't like it but the powers that be have
> decided that within a locale, within libc, character col
Thanks for this illuminating response to what I thought
might have been mere user naivete.
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:55:48PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Neal Murphy wrote:
> > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not
> > doing what it should.
>
> You don't like it and I d
Neal Murphy wrote:
> For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not
> doing what it should.
You don't like it and I don't like it but the powers that be have
decided that within a locale, within libc, character collation
sequences will be dictionary ordering where case is folded
On Ne 05-02-12 | 23:04, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-02-05 22:31 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote:
>
> > On Ne 05-02-12 | 16:03, Neal Murphy wrote:
> >> For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing
> >> what it
> >> should.
> >>
> >> I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. I
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:03:45 -0500
Neal Murphy wrote:
> For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not
> doing what it should.
>
> I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or
> on a console running bash or dash, this command:
> ls -C1 | egrep "^[A-Z]"
On 2012-02-05 22:31 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote:
> On Ne 05-02-12 | 16:03, Neal Murphy wrote:
>> For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what
>> it
>> should.
>>
>> I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a
>> console running bash or
On Ne 05-02-12 | 16:03, Neal Murphy wrote:
> For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what
> it
> should.
>
> I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a
> console running bash or dash, this command:
> ls -C1 | egrep "^[A-Z]"
> retur
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 04:03:45PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote:
> For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what
> it
> should.
>
> I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a
> console running bash or dash, this command:
> ls -C1 | egre
For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what it
should.
I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a
console running bash or dash, this command:
ls -C1 | egrep "^[A-Z]"
returns all lines except those beginning with 'a'. Even the follo
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