[27072] in Athena Bugs
Athena linux 9.4.36: locales and bash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Mar 30 20:26:12 2007
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:26:01 -0400 (EDT)
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It appears that bash does case-insensitive shell globbing when the
locale is en_US.UTF-8 (which is the default that I don't change).
This seems horribly broken to me (surely it breaks lots of scripts?
It certainly breaks my use of the shell), but I don't understand
locales.
--jhawk
[cutter-john!jhawk] /tmp/test> touch A a B b C c
[cutter-john!jhawk] /tmp/test> ls
a A b B c C
[cutter-john!jhawk] /tmp/test> echo [A-]*
A
[cutter-john!jhawk] /tmp/test> echo [A-Z]*
A B C
[cutter-john!jhawk] /tmp/test> bash
bash-3.00$ echo [A-Z]*
A b B c C
bash-3.00$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
bash-3.00$ export LC_ALL=C
bash-3.00$ echo [A-Z]*
A B C
bash-3.00$
