Re: egrep confusion

[Paul Jarc]

address@hidden (Richard Pixley) wrote:
> I don't understand the result of this command when using gnu egrep
> (2.4.2) compiled with gcc-3.0 on sparc-sun-solaris-2.6.  The result
> for me is empty, while I'm expecting the line to match.  (That's a
> space or tab, btw).
> 
> echo '#define S_arpLib_INVALID_ARGUMENT' \
>     | /home/rpixley/gnu/src/grep-sendai/src/egrep "^#define[  ]*S_[^A-Z]"

Check your locale ($LANG, $LC_ALL, and in this case, $LC_COLLATE).  In
the C locale, you'd get the behavior you want.  In some others,
letters are ordered as AaBb...Zz, so 'a' is within the range [A-Z].


paul