Re: [A-M]* glob matches "beta.err"

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Chet" == Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu> writes:

    Chet> That's `veil of tears'.

Good grief.  I had better go read the standard myself.

    Chet> Read the Bash FAQ, question E9.

I don't know which version of the standard is implemented by bash, but

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_03_05

as cited in the bash FAQ, says, and I quote:

    7.  In the POSIX locale, a range expression represents the set of
    collating elements that fall between two elements in the collation
    sequence, inclusive. In other locales, a range expression has
    unspecified behavior: strictly conforming applications shall not
    rely on whether the range expression is valid, or on the set of
    collating elements matched.

In other words, signaling an error on use of a range in locales !=
POSIX, and internally doing the equivalent of LC_COLLATE=POSIX for
shell globs, are both conformant.

So deleting my file was your choice, not something required by POSIX.


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