> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:54:44AM -0800, Simper, Brian D wrote: > > Try this in an empty directory and let me know if this is a bug or a feature > > or an error on my part. > > > > Create several files of upper and lower case names: > > ... > > Now use a regular expression to delete all files starting with a lower case > > letter: > > > > rm [a-z]* > > > > When I was experimenting with this all of the files starting with *any* > > alphabetic character were deleted. I just tried it, Mandrake 7.0.2 - it worked as expected for me (the Uppercase files stuck around ;-). > > ... > > You don't have the nocaseglob bash shell option set do you? What does > "shopt | grep nocaseglob" say? Also, check what filesystem you're doing this on. Some filesystems do some strange things to upper/lower stuff...