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Re: globbing is always case insensitive


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: globbing is always case insensitive
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 13:47:51 +0200
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jmayer@jmayer.homelinux.net (Jonathan Mayer) writes:

|> > What does 'ls ?????[:upper:]*' give?
|> 
|> Strangely,
|> 
|> ls [:upper:]*
|> 
|> only gives me files that start with the letters :,u,p,e,r.  Well -- 
|> THAT's weird behavior.

No, it's correct.  If you want a pattern that matches only upper case
letters, use [[:upper:]].

Andreas.

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