On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Farkas Levente <lfar...@lfarkas.org> wrote: > hi, > =~ no longer working in bash. just try this little line: > ----------------------------- > if [[ "abc" =~ "abc.*" ]]; then echo inside; else echo outside; fi > ----------------------------- > this give "inside" up to fedora-12, but it gives > "outside" in fedora-13. > imho it's a serious changes since all shell script will fail which use > =~ :-( > is there any reason for this? or any quick fixes?
Try removing the quotes from the regular expression, or at least the asterisk. Alternatively, you can use something like `grep -Eq "abc.*" <<< abc` for extended regular expressions with the expected quoted-token behavior. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
