When did linux become caseless?

[David Precious]

Dirk Koopman 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]*"
> 
> I am guessing that this some bash argument expansion option. Any ideas 
> as to how to get the correct behaviour?

Hmm....

[davidp at ruthenium:/tmp/case]$ shopt | grep case
nocaseglob      off
nocasematch     off

They look to be likely suspects :)

[davidp at ruthenium:/tmp/case]$ touch foo FOO bar BAR


[davidp at ruthenium:/tmp/case]$ ls [A-Z]*
BAR  FOO
[davidp at ruthenium:/tmp/case]$ shopt -s nocaseglob
[davidp at ruthenium:/tmp/case]$ ls [A-Z]*
BAR  FOO  bar  foo

Yup.

a shopt -u nocaseglob ought to fix it.

(Does Ubuntu have that set by default??)


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