Re: egrep confusion

[Paul Eggert]

> From: address@hidden (Richard Pixley)
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:48:05 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> I don't understand the result of this command when using gnu egrep
> (2.4.2) compiled with gcc-3.0 on sparc-sun-solaris-2.6.  The result
> for me is empty, while I'm expecting the line to match.  (That's a
> space or tab, btw).
> 
> echo '#define S_arpLib_INVALID_ARGUMENT' \
>      | /home/rpixley/gnu/src/grep-sendai/src/egrep "^#define[         
> ]*S_[^A-Z]"
> 
> Any obvious clues I'm overlooking?

Your locale probably thinks that 'a' is in the range 'A'-'Z'.
Try setting LC_ALL='C' in your environment.