Re: improper handling of [] sequences

[Tatavarty Kalyan]

Please try, "ls a[[:upper:]]a" instead. 

"a[:upper:]a" matches  'a' followed by any one of ':','u','p','e','r'
,followed by 'a'.

Thanks,
Kalyan

On 7/22/05, James Downs <jdowns@shopping.com> wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i386
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: i386-redhat-linux-gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' -
> DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-redhat-linux-gnu' -
> DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -
> DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib  -
> D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4
> uname output: Linux jdowns.epinions.com 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17
> 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 14
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>         bash-3.00$ ls a[:upper:]a
>         aea  apa  ara  aua
> 
> Repeat-By:
>         touch a number of files matching [a-z][a-zA-z][a-z]
>         try the ls command listed above
> 
> 
> 
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