[CentOS] Maybe OT : strange wildcard behaviour

Brunner, Brian T. BBrunner at gai-tronics.com
Mon Oct 25 17:08:06 UTC 2010


> 
> $ ls -d /tmp/[A-Z]* 

Works as expected here.

> Can anybody offer an explanation for this curious behaviour ?
Try:
alias ls (to see if you're getting invisible flags enabled)
/bin/ls -d /tmp/[A-Z]* (to try the command without such)
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