-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Boris Toloknov on 12/19/2006 1:45 PM: > It seems that regular expressions [[ str =~ regex ]] do not work in bash. > For example the following expression doesn't match: > [[ abc =~ 'a.*c' ]] && echo It works
In bash 3.2, the [[ ]] quoting rules changed slightly. Since [[ already introduces special quoting rules, single quotes are not required; the regex is already protected by the shell from globbing. Try this instead: [[ abc =~ a.*c ]] && echo It works And since none of this is cygwin specific, you should report this upstream to bug-bash AT gnu DOT org if you think it is a bug. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFiLyF84KuGfSFAYARAu7bAJ42hoIBrYlVcSSwuEBwJnR5e/76igCgssfc 90J7OeEP6WFgMAWCZeBFfoY= =0VhV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
