On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Pan ruochen > But some bash does match the pattern:
It's possible that the behavior has changed between bash versions, but the behavior is not Cygwin-specific. 3.2.17 on OS X also suppresses metacharacters with quotation marks, and the documentation indicates that this is the expected behavior. See http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Conditional-Constructs Under [[...]], third paragraph: "An additional binary operator, ‘=~’, is available [...] Any part of the pattern may be quoted to force it to be matched as a string." > $bash --version > GNU bash, version 3.2.33(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Maybe some settings affect bash's behaviour. > > PRC > -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- 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/
