Re: Subject: inaccurate character class processing

[Pierre Gaston]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Iosif Fettich <ifettich@netsoft.ro> wrote:
...
>
>        ls [a-z]*
>
>        outputs
>
>        a  A  b  B  z
>
>        (why 'A' and 'B' - and/or where's 'Z'...?!!)
>
>
it's a classic problem with the locale, the range [a-z] contains the
capital letters
for some  locale definitions ie  a-z is aAbB ....z (Z is after the z)
As a workaround  you can export LC_COLLATE=C, or maybe use [[:lower:]]
instead of [a-z]