Re: [a-f]* style globbing broken

[Chet Ramey]

serenity@exscape.org wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       When using [a-*] globbing options, the very last UPPERCASE letter is 
> not matched, however all other ones are.
> 
> Repeat-By:
>       mkdir test; cd test; for LETTER in {a..f}; do touch $LETTER; done
>       ls -1 [a-f]* | wc -l # returns 6, as expected
>       for LETTER in {A..F}; do touch $LETTER; done
>       ls -1 [a-f]* | wc -l # returns 11! If we return the wc pipe, we can see 
> that the output is "a A b B ... e E f" without the capital F.

Please read the Bash FAQ, question E9.

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/