Bug 8325

Summary: locale and bash2 filename expansion
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: santini
Component: bash2Assignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description santini 2000-01-10 11:08:53 UTC 
As reported in bug 5980 and 6000 about tcsh, the following happens also
with bash2

 % touch A B C a b c
 % echo [A-Z]
 A a B b C c
 % echo [a-z]
 a B b C C

this depends on the locale "sorting rules"; I don't know if it is a
feature, as keld says in bug 6000 report, but shurely it can be
confusing since the ascii order is clear to everybody while the ISO locale
ordering specification is not so well known and public.

The problem could be solved if "character class" would be implemented as
described in the bash2 manual. But if I try

 % touch A B C D E a b c d e
 % echo [:upper:] [:lower:]
 e e

It happens as if the 'e' between [] is matched, instead of the character
classes. Shoud the "character class" pattern be activated some how via some
options I am missing, or the fact that it is not working for me is simply a
bug ?
Comment 1 santini 2000-01-22 14:24:59 UTC 
I've to ask you sorry, the last problem was a problem of escaping

	echo [[:alha::]]

works as espected...