When did linux become caseless?

[mike chamberlain]

On 6/15/07, Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> Subject says it all really. Just did "rm [A-Z]*" and had a load of files
>    with lower case first letters removed as well. Same thing happens for
> "ls -d [A-Z]*"
>

It's locale dependant.

Try setting your locale to C.

bash-2.05$ cd foo
bash-2.05$ touch Foo
bash-2.05$ touch bar
bash-2.05$ ls -ald [A-Z]*
-rw-r--r--   1 chambm02 staff          0 Jun 15 11:22 bar
-rw-r--r--   1 chambm02 staff          0 Jun 15 11:22 Foo
bash-2.05$ export LC_ALL=C
bash-2.05$ ls -ald [A-Z]*
-rw-r--r--   1 chambm02 staff          0 Jun 15 11:22 Foo
bash-2.05$

Mike.