Problem with Bash

Anthony David adavid at deetya.gov.au
Wed Dec 12 14:29:49 EST 2001


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> I feel stupid asking this but I can't see why bash (RH 7.2) is ignoring case 
> in regular expressions.  For example
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> ~/tmp 38>touch A B C D a b c d
> ~/tmp 39>ls
> a  A  b  B  c  C  d  D
> ~/tmp 40>ls [a-z]*
> a  A  b  B  c  C  d  D

what does [a-zA-Z]* give you?

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