Re: [a-f]* style globbing broken
seren...@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. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
[a-f]* style globbing broken
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin' -DSTANDARD_UTILS_PATH='/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin' -DSYS_BASHRC='/etc/bash/bashrc' -DSYS_BASH_LOGOUT='/etc/bash/bash_logout' -DNON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS -DSSH_SOURCE_BASHRC -O2 -pipe -mtune=nocona uname output: Linux exscape.org 2.6.28-gentoo #2 SMP Sun Apr 5 18:28:35 CEST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 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.