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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers wildcard Post 61703 by zazzybob on Monday 7th of February 2005 05:05:18 PM
Old 02-07-2005
In terms of globbing, your command says....

match anything, followed by a period (dot), followed by an upper OR lowercase M, followed by an upper OR lowercase P, followed by the number 3.

You could also use curly brackets (depending on your shell)....

ls *.{mp,Mp,mP,MP}3

This will have the same effect as the command you posted.

Cheers
ZB
 

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TOUPPER(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							TOUPPER(3)

NAME
toupper, tolower - convert letter to upper or lower case SYNOPSIS
#include <ctype.h> int toupper(int c); int tolower(int c); DESCRIPTION
toupper() converts the letter c to upper case, if possible. tolower() converts the letter c to lower case, if possible. If c is not an unsigned char value, or EOF, the behavior of these functions is undefined. RETURN VALUE
The value returned is that of the converted letter, or c if the conversion was not possible. CONFORMING TO
C89, C99, 4.3BSD. BUGS
The details of what constitutes an uppercase or lowercase letter depend on the current locale. For example, the default "C" locale does not know about umlauts, so no conversion is done for them. In some non-English locales, there are lowercase letters with no corresponding uppercase equivalent; the German sharp s is one example. SEE ALSO
isalpha(3), setlocale(3), towlower(3), towupper(3), locale(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
1993-04-04 TOUPPER(3)
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