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Well, this is new to me. Perhaps it new to you, too. Or maybe not.

Follow closely.

    $ ls
    Alan Parsons Project - 1976 - Tales of Mystery and Imagination/
    cd1/
    cd2/
    Yahel - Waves of sound/
    Younger Brother - A Flock of Bleeps/
    $ mv [A-Z]* cd2/
    mv: cannot move `cd2' to a subdirectory of itself, `cd2/cd2'
    $ ls
    cd2/

Uhm? Since when were shell globs case *in*sensitive??

Yes, I know about nocaseglob:

    $ shopt
    nocaseglob      off

which, according to the manpage, should make globs case sensitive.

    $ echo $LANG
    en_NZ.UTF-8

It gets worse:

    $ touch a b C D
    $ ls
    a  b  C  cd2/  D

    $ echo [A-Z]*
    b C cd2 D

Geezuz, where did little-'a' go?? A colleague pointed out that little-'a' is
sorting before big-'A' now.

This is just wrong, on every single level I think of, this is WRONG.

Easy to demonstrate it is locale:

    $ bash -c 'echo [A-Z]*'
    b C cd2 D
    $ unset LANG; bash -c 'echo [A-Z]*'
    C D

Why should I use locales ever again? This behaviour is not just hateful; it
is outright terrifying.

.Guy

• locales. Guy Thornley 04:43 on 22 Dec 2006
  • Re: locales. jrodman 04:58 on 22 Dec 2006
    • too deep to show
  • Yossi Kreinin 12:34 on 22 Dec 2006

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