Path: csiph.com!goblin3!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Eric Blake Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Rational Range Interpretation for bash-5.0? Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:14:14 -0500 Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Lines: 14 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1f2b7e3e-3dee-f5bb-7f0b-59393ae99902@case.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1533586463 7511 208.118.235.17 (6 Aug 2018 20:14:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: chet.ramey@case.edu, bug-bash Envelope-to: Bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 In-Reply-To: <1f2b7e3e-3dee-f5bb-7f0b-59393ae99902@case.edu> Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.7]); Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:14:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.7]); Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:14:15 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.3' DOMAIN:'int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'eblake@redhat.com' RCPT:'' X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 66.187.233.73 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:14455 On 08/06/2018 03:07 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > Hi. I am considering making bash glob expansion implement rational range > interpretation starting with bash-5.0 -- basically making globasciiranges > the default. It looks like glibc is going to do this for version 2.28 (at > least for a-z, A-Z, and 0-9), and other GNU utilities have done it for some > time. What do folks think? I'm in favor of the idea. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org