Re: grep is screwed on Debian, Ubuntu and others ...

[Wolfram Gloger]

Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:

> Watch this:
> 
> $ echo a | grep '[A-B]'
> a

I can't reproduce this on Debian.  Neither in lenny nor in squeeze,
not even in etch.  (C and de_DE.UTF-8 locales tested)

What is your 'Debian'?

> $ echo b | grep '[A-B]'
> $ echo b | grep '[:upper:]'
> $ echo B | grep '[:upper:]'
> $ echo E | grep '[:upper:]'
> $ echo e | grep '[:upper:]'
> e

I can reproduce these -- are all expected, as explained in followup.

Regards,
Wolfram.