On 9/28/12 12:52 AM, hans1wo...@gmail.com wrote: >> The question is whether or not !(x) should match the empty string. The >> bash matcher treats it similarly to [!x], which does not. > > It does however match the empty string at most times. So I guess that's the > real bug. Again, there is some inconsistency in
It's whether or not it matches the NUL at the end of the search string. I agree that it should, or at least that (x) should not match, so !(x) should, and that will be fixed for the next version. > [OT] Thanks for your work for the Bash project. I've just learned that you've > been the main maintainer for a long time, so keep it up! :) :-) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/