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:
>
> touch aaaa
> touch AAAA
> touch bbbb
> touch BBBB
> touch 1234
> touch .abcd
>
> 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. This was unexpected and I'm not sure if
> I am misinterpreting the regular expression or if I am delusional. Let me
> know what you get. FYI, I am using Red Hat Linux 7.2 so I would be
> interested if it's just me.
>
> Brian
You don't have the nocaseglob bash shell option set do you? What does
"shopt | grep nocaseglob" say?
-Mike
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