Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:31:44 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: eam1edward@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash LC_COLLATE or LC_ALL set =?windows-1252?q?=93C=94_not__?= =?windows-1252?q?sort_in_dictionary_order=2E?= Message-ID: <201201311431.q0VEVimC094105@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <4F27E270.7020001@gmail.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jan 31 05:45:47 2012
> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:45:36 -0800
> From: Edward Martinez <eam1edward@gmail.com>
> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: bash LC_COLLATE or LC_ALL set =?windows-1252?q?=93C=94_not__sort?=
> =?windows-1252?q?_in_dictionary_order=2E?=
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> Hi,
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> Been trying to get BASH to sort set characters in dictionary order.
> I typed "locale" and it shows LC_COLLATE and LC_ALL are set to "C"
> thought that was enough to work,
> however when i type metacharacters: set character; any character,
> something like this:
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> ls [a-cx-y]*
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> bash does not sort in dictionary order; file "Binarc" does not
> list.
>
*OF*COURSE* it doesn't. Unix is _case_sensitive_. You specified a lower-
case only (in the C locale) pattern. Naturally, it doesn't match a file
with an upper-case character in it.
Note: in the 'C' locale, characters are sorted on the underlying byte value.
Thus you will get all the upper-case matches before any lower-case match.
To get upper-and-lower case files in the C locale, you will have to use:
ls [A-CX-Ya-cx-y]*
IF you speciy a different charset for collating, you _may_ get upper/lower
case characters sorted adjacently. See the specifications for the charset
in question.
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