On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:16:09PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> stan wrote:
> 
> >>>/foo/bar/[A-J]*
> >>>/foo/bar/[K-z]*
> 
> Don't mix uppercase and lowercase in the character maps.
> It depends on the current LANG and/or LC_* settings what they
> expand to.  Probably not what you want.
> 
> Maybe you need this:
> 
>   /foo/bar/[A-J]*
>   /foo/bar/[K-Za-z]*
> 
> Also notice these are not complementary!!!
> A file named:
> 
>   /foo/bar/123

Acutally thta was why I did waht I did. Looking at man ascii, it appeared
that the second line would catch all possible filenames NOT matched by the
first one.

Is there a way to this that IS safe given the locale stuff?
> 

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