Re: egrep bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bob Greiner on 1/4/2009 7:30 AM:
>    egrep "^[A-Z]" data.txt
>    
> does not return just those records beginning with upper case letters.

This is due to your locale (in particular, LC_COLLATE).  The following
link, while not directly about grep, contains relevant information:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

> Is this change to version 2.4.2 an oversight or a deliberate modification?

Deliberate, due to POSIX requirements and your current locale, but you can
work around it by specifying a different locale:

LC_ALL=C egrep "^[a-z]" data.txt

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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