[PLUG] bash surprise

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:47:43AM -0800, Bill Spears wrote:
> Try this:
> $ echo B | grep [a-z]
> 
> Cure seems to be LC_ALL=C.
> 
> I thought my system, Fedora1, was plain Jane vanilla.  The fact that
> this wasn't set right really surprised me.

um, beg to differ here, but the 'cure' is:

$ echo B | grep -i [a-z]

It's good to keep upper and lower case distinct.  Unless you explicitly want
them munged together.

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