On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 07:14:39AM +0400, vollitwr . wrote: > It is obvious that letters 'b' > and 'B' are different for everybody in any locale
No, they're the same letter. One's upper-case and one's lower-case. > How is it possible to use sequence like aAbBcC... for the > range patterns?! When you have words in a dictionary, they're in alphabetical order, yes? But the case of the letters is not relevant. ... bar barb Barbara barn barnacle Barney barometer baron ... Mixed-case locale ordering is how words are usually sorted by everyone who isn't an old-school computer programmer. When I type "ls" my files are sorted in a similar way: $ ls ... xclip-0.12.tar.gz xengine_1.11.orig.tar.gz XF86Config Xf86.0.log xlockmore-5.02-README ... If you don't like this behavior, then you can set LC_COLLATE=C or whatever. This will change the ordering back to "all capital letters come before all lower-case letters because of the arbitrary numerical assignments of ASCII". $ LC_COLLATE=C ls ... XF86Config Xf86.0.log ... xclip-0.12.tar.gz xengine_1.11.orig.tar.gz xlockmore-5.02-README ... Or, you can install the Bash 4.3 prerelease and use the new globasciiranges option. There's even a compile-time option to make that the default.
