Re: problem with pathname expansion

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 03:11:13PM -0800, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 06:41:17PM +0400, vollitwr . wrote:
> > The patterns [A-C] and [ABC] work different!  [A-C] ignores case and
> > [ABC] does not.

It's not actually ignoring case.  It's just that in some locales, the
collating order for letters is something like AaÁáÀàÄäBbCcÇç in which
case [A-C] matches AaÁáÀàÄäBbC but not cÇç.

> This is not a bug. It's well known that character set ranges depend
> on your locale configuration. You seem to be expecting [A-C] to match
> ASCII, but your (unspecified) locale expands differently. In
> particular, it's the collation order that specifies which character
> comes after which.

If your locale is set to "C" or "POSIX", [ABC] and [A-C] will be
equivalent to each other.  In any other locale, the result of [A-C]
is operating-system-specific.

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/locale discusses this in a bit more detail.

Bash 4.3 (currently in pre-release state) will introduce a new shell
option, "globasciiranges", which will cause [A-C] to work as you
expect, but this will not be the default behavior.  If you want [A-C]
to work like [ABC] by default, then you need to set your locale to C
in the shell(s)/script(s) where you want that.