Comment 5 for bug 571958
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| StephanBeal (sgbeal) wrote Re: bash always globs case-insensitively | #5 |
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Thanks for the info (and for the bug renaming - i fired it off before experimenting enough to determine the culprit), but i still consider this to be a bug in the default Ubuntu configuration. Scripts copied from other platforms (even other Linuxes) are ticking time-bombs.
i'm using the default LC config, and my system is set up for US/English, so it should (as far as i'm aware) be behaving like the C locale as far as collation is.concerned.
stephan@jareth:~$ env | grep LC
stephan@jareth:~$
If i explicitly set it to 'C' then it works as it should:
stephan@jareth:~$ export LC_ALL=C
stephan@jareth:~$ ls -d [A-Z]*
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Regardless of what SUSv3 specifies, i have never worked on a Solaris/Linux/BSD system (or programming language) which had case-insensitive character ranges. This just bit me in the ass big-time.
i have verified that it happens on my 9.10 box as well, and it's a miracle i haven't nuked huge amounts of data already, as i _instinctively_ rely on all Unix shell operations being case-sensitive (and very often make use of that).