[ale] BASHing my head

Scott M. Jones eff at dragoncon.org
Wed Aug 26 12:00:30 EDT 2015


Thanks, that works.

-Scott

On 8/26/15 11:34 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
> You need to set the shopt globasciiranges otherwise it uses the values
> as lexical rather than pure ASCII values.
> 
> 
> On 2015-08-26 08:22, Scott M. Jones wrote:
>> For some reason my wildcard search in bash starting with uppercase
>> letters is finding files starting with lower case.  I checked my 'shopt'
>> options and they should be correct, but changing them doesn't change the
>> results.  In this case I DO want a case sensitive search but I'm not
>> getting that.  What am I doing wrong?  (Fedora 21 bash BTW.)
>>
>> [scott at vbox21 tentcards]$ echo $SHELL
>> /bin/bash
>> [scott at vbox21 tentcards]$ ls [A-Z]*.pdf
>> no_materials.pdf  tentcard.pdf  tentcard_short.pdf  tents.pdf
>> tents_short.pdf
>> [scott at vbox21 tentcards]$ shopt | grep -i case
>> nocaseglob     	off
>> nocasematch    	off
>> [scott at vbox21 tentcards]$ shopt -s nocaseglob
>> [scott at vbox21 tentcards]$ shopt -s nocasematch
>> [scott at vbox21 tentcards]$ ls [A-Z]*.pdf
>> no_materials.pdf  tentcard.pdf  tentcard_short.pdf  tents.pdf
>> tents_short.pdf
>> [scott at vbox21 tentcards]$ shopt | grep -i case
>> nocaseglob     	on
>> nocasematch    	on
>> [scott at vbox21 tentcards]$



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