On 11/04/2011 09:09 AM, flong@dell1.localdomain wrote:
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic uname output: Linux dell1 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 20 03:51:51 BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Machine Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnuBash Version: 4.1 Patch Level: 2 Release Status: release Description: The [[ str =~ "^pattern" ]] operator no longer works correctly. "^" is treated as a literal instead of matching the beginning of the line. Repeat-By: [[ "-h" =~ '^-h' ]] ; echo $? Should return 0, but instead returns 1.
It was bug in previous versions of bash in fedora and RHEL. This behavior is correct now. RR
