Thanks for the report.
I'm confident it's not a bug in rm.
It looks like it's a *feature* (albeit confusing) of your shell,
which is probably bash-2.03 or a test release of bash-2.05.
It looks like bash-2.05 (when it is released) will be like 2.03:
[this is using bash-2.05-beta1 on a solaris5.8 system]
$ export LC_COLLATE=en_US
$ echo [a-z]*
a B b C c
$ export LC_COLLATE=C
$ echo [a-z]*
a b c
>From bash-2.05-beta1's CHANGES file:
c. The globbing library once again respects locales when processing ranges
in bracket expressions while doing pattern matching.
So it looks like this was `fixed' in 2.04, but then reverted to
the original (presumably better-in-the-long-run) behavior for 2.05.
I've had a very similar battle with GNU sort. If you use the wrong
locale (e.g., en_US), newer versions of GNU sort give results that
are very different from those most people are used to.
The solution is to encourage people to put this in the appropriate
shell start-up file.
export LC_COLLATE=C # for bash
setenv LC_COLLATE C # for C-shells
Or, just set LANG or LC_ALL.
Jim
Mike Busse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| First off I'd like to say thanks for the hard developement work!
|
| I just found what I believe is a bug, here's the details:
|
| Summary: Trying to use rm to do remove all lowercase lettered filenames.
|
|
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 284 # ls
| Config config.log expect_cf.h pkgIndex tcldbgcf.h
| config.cache config.status Makefile shared testsuite
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 285 # rm -rf [a-z]* .[a-z]*
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 286 # ls
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 287 # ls
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 288 #
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 288 # ls
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 289 # ls -al
| total 2
| drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1024 Mar 2 13:32 .
| drwxr-xr-x 3 root other 512 Mar 1 18:37 ..
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 290 # touch A B C a b c
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 291 # rm -rf [a-z]* .[a-z]*
| expedition /src/X11/bin/expect5.32/obj/sol2.8 292 # ls
| A
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