On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:18 AM, <car...@taltos.org> wrote:
>
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 37
>
> Description:
>
> bash -c 're=".*([0-9])"; if [[ "foo1" =~ ".*([0-9])" ]]; then echo
> ${BASH_REMATCH[0]}; elif [[ "bar2" =~ $re ]]; then echo ${BASH_REMATCH[0]};
> fi'
>
> This should output foo1. It instead outputs bar2, as the first match fails.
>
>
> From bash's man page:
[[ expression ]]
... ...
An additional binary operator, =~, is available, with the
same
... ...
alphabetic characters. Any part of the pattern may be quoted
to
force it to be matched as a string. Substrings matched
by
... ...
