On 5/5/11 8:26 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> imadev:~$ bash-4.1.7
> imadev:~$ re=$'o\001world$' string=$'hello\001world'; [[ $string =~ $re ]] &&
> echo match
> imadev:~$
>
> It works fine with Ctrl-B for whatever reason:
That's because C-A is the internal `backslash' quoting character and needs
to be handled specially -- more specially than it was.
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