Re: Whats wrong with 'sets in grep'

[Bauke Jan Douma]

SPS Khokhar wrote on 19-12-06 08:37:
> hi!
>
> Kindly someone explain to me, what is wrong with 'sets in grep'
>
> following are two commands logically seems same but results are like
> north-south pole, not same.
>
> what i want is - All files/dir having names in uppercases only
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> [simrat > simrat]$ ls | grep ^[A-Z]*$
> crbt
> Desktop
> evolution
> ice
> just
> Linux
> misc
> MYSHARE
> scripting
> send
> test
> zBochs
>
> [simrat > simrat]$ ls | grep ^[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]*$
> MYSHARE

>

Nothing wrong probably.
Collation.
See for instance http://icu.sourceforge.net/docs/papers/iuc26_regexp.pdf

bjd