Paul Martin wrote: > Seems like it's documented behaviour for bash. Pity I had to file a bug > to find this out.
AAAAAAAARGHHH! I'm cc-ing -devel to let others read about this ugly ugly thing. And going to fix rpm's debian/rules file to use [:lower:] instead of [a-z]. Sigh. > Looks like it would be a good idea to add "export LC_ALL=POSIX" to the > default dh_make "rules" file. Well, we _could_ do that. It would probably have nasty effects if you expected to be able to build a package and see errors in your native language though. > ----- Forwarded message from Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug#95285: Incorrect globbing under locales > > Paul Martin writes: > > Package: bash > > Version: 2.05-2 > > Severity: important > > > > This behaviour exists on my machine. However I ran these tests on one of > > the Debian machines, just to prove it wasn't any configuration fault of > > mine. > > See the COMPAT file, 14: > > 14. The behavior of range specificiers within bracket matching expressions > in the pattern matcher (e.g., [A-Z]) depends on the current locale, > specifically the value of the LC_COLLATE environment variable. Setting > this variable to C or POSIX will result in the traditional ASCII behavior > for range comparisons. If the locale is set to something else, e.g., > en_US (specified by the LANG or LC_ALL variables), collation order is > locale-dependent. For example, the en_US locale sorts the upper and > lower case letters like this: > > AaBb...Zz > > so a range specification like [A-Z] will match every letter except `z'. > > The portable way to specify upper case letters is [:upper:] instead of > A-Z; lower case may be specified as [:lower:] instead of a-z. > > Look at the manual pages for setlocale(3), strcoll(3), and, if it is > present, locale(1). > > You can find your current locale information by running locale(1): > > caleb.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ locale > LANG=en_US > LC_CTYPE="en_US" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US" > LC_TIME="en_US" > LC_COLLATE="en_US" > LC_MONETARY="en_US" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US" > LC_ALL=en_US > > My advice is to put > > export LC_COLLATE=C > > into /etc/profile and inspect any shell scripts run from cron for > constructs like [A-Z]. This will prevent things like > > rm [A-Z]* > > from removing every file in the current directory except those beginning > with `z' and still allow individual users to change the collation order. > Users may put the above command into their own profiles as well, of > course. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (work) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (home) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian stuff) -- see shy jo, retching
