Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working through some basic HOWTOS (Linux Fundamentals 1-4 > by Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins) on a CentOS 5.5 server, just to keep > in shape. > > I've just noticed a curious wildcard behaviour, which I can't really > explain. Let's say I wanted to list all the files or directories in /tmp > starting with any uppercase character. Normally, I would do this : > > $ ls -d /tmp/[A-Z]* > > Curiously enough, this command lists *all* the content of /tmp, > consisting of a majority of files and directories starting with a > *lowercase* character. I've tested this on two different machines, with > the same results. I'm puzzled. > > Can anybody offer an explanation for this curious behaviour ? probably "expected" behavior, depending on your locale. google for LC_COLLATE. LC_COLLATE='C' ; ls -d /tmp/[A-Z]* should do what you want.