<html><head></head><body>I've not heard that but ls output can be a challenge. Parsing ls -A1 is fun.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 26, 2015 6:23:06 PM EDT, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio@jdpfu.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I seem to recall being told to NEVER parse the output from ls - ever.<br />Maybe I misunderstood?<br /><br />On 08/26/2015 05:38 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Yeah. What he said.<br /> From my F22 bash-land (4.3.39):<br /> touch a.pdf A.pdf b.pdf B.pdf c.pdf C.pdf z.pdf Z.pdf<br /> [jkinney@dhcp061167 tmp]$ ls<br /> a.pdf A.pdf b.pdf B.pdf c.pdf C.pdf z.pdf Z.pdf<br /> [jkinney@dhcp061167 tmp]$ ls | grep "[A-Z].pdf"<br /> A.pdf<br /> B.pdf<br /> C.pdf<br /> Z.pdf<br /> [jkinney@dhcp061167 tmp]$ ls | grep "[a-z].pdf"<br /> a.pdf<br /> b.pdf<br /> c.pdf<br /> z.pdf<br /> On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 15:41 -0400, Ed Cashin wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> I've been biting my tongue here. I don't think these characteristics<br /> of bash are congrue
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UNIX philosophy. The people who made UNIX<br /> complain about bash being bloated. These characteristics of bash are<br /> congruent with POSIX philosophy.<br /><br /> A UNIX-ish way of doing this would be ...<br /><br /> ls | grep '^[A-Z].*\.pdf'<br /><br /><br /> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney@gmail.com><br /> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> Wow! Shopt has enough options to make it stand next to emacs.<br /> I don't understand why the default is essentially case insensitive<br /> when everything else in bash is case sensitive. It looks like the<br /> LANG makes it work that way but that makes no sense either to me. A<br /> != a in standard US English.<br /> More of the secret mysteries of Unix philosophy I've never wrapped<br /> my head around.<br /> On Aug 26, 2015 12:16 PM, "Scott Plante" <splante@insightsys.com><br /> wrote:<br
/><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"> I didn't know the globasciiranges option.<br /><br /> Another solution is the LC_COLLATE variable:<br /></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><hr /><br />Ale mailing list<br />Ale@ale.org<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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