[Gllug] Bash character-range and locale

[- Tethys]

On 3/7/07, Richard Huxton <dev at archonet.com> wrote:

> I take it that if I want to override locale for one command, I'll need
> something like:
> $ LC_COLLATE=C bash -c 'ls [g-i]*'
> hello

That'd work. Or alternatively, just do it in a subshell:

(LC_COLLATE=C;  ls [g-i]*)

Note that you need the semicolon, otherwise you suffer from the same
expansion order problem.

Tet
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