In the listings below, two programs are involved: "ls" and "bash". I am inclined to believe that "bash" treats a missing LC_COLLATE as "en_US" and "ls" treats it as "C". If there is such a thing as an invisible (not in environment variables) "system default locale", then "ls" is wrong, otherwise "bash" is wrong. One of the two has to be wrong.
(Just to be clear: bash is selecting files with "[a-z]*" and then ls sorts them based on some collating sequence. The sorting collating order should be identical to the selection order.) $ unset LC_COLLATE $ ls -go total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 AZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 BZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 YZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 ZZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 aZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 bZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 yZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 zZZ $ ls -go [a-z]* -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 AZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 BZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 YZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 aZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 bZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 yZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 zZZ $ export LC_COLLATE=C $ ls -go [a-z]* -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 aZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 bZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 yZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 zZZ $ export LC_COLLATE=en_US $ ls -go [a-z]* -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 aZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 AZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 bZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 BZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 yZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 YZZ -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 25 07:47 zZZ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
