Re: ls Pattern Match Problem

[Bob Proulx]

Gutierrez, Carlos Y. wrote:
> Using RHL Fedora Core 3, 2.6.11 kernel:
> 
> ls [a-z]* returns entries that begin with upper-case letters

This is almost certainly due use of a non-standard locale.  For
example in the en_US locale setting (e.g. LANG=en_US) the collating
sequence of letters is aAbBcC...zZ and [a-z] matches [a-zA-X] in the C
or POSIX locale.

Try this:

  env LANG=C ls
  env LC_COLLATE=C ls

See this reference:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/

Look for "Sort does not sort in normal order!"

Bob