Problem with Bash

[Anthony David]

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> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:44:51 +1100 (EST)
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> Works fine for me.
> $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu)
> 
> Saul.
> 
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Chris Delfs wrote:
> 
> > I feel stupid asking this but I can't see why bash (RH 7.2) is ignoring case
> > in regular expressions.  For example
> >
> > ~/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
> 
> 

The problem as I think it is being reported is that bash 2.0.3 ref manual says
these two things:-


After word splitting, unless the `-f' option has been set (see section The Set Builtin), Bash scans each word for the characters `*', `?', `(', and `['. If one of these characters appears, then the word is regarded as a pattern, and replaced with an alphabetically sorted list of file names matching the pattern.

...

nocaseglob
If set, Bash matches filenames in a case-insensitive fashion when performing
 filename expansion.

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It looks like a doco or implemetation bug to me.

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