On Tuesday 07 November 2006 20:32, Drake Wyrm wrote: > I could be missing something, but: > > [[ $'\nwombat' =~ $'wombat' ]] && \ > echo "These compare as equal, with or without the leading \n" > > They do not compare as equal with the == operator or the = operator. You > probably want the = operator, because the == operator _does_ interpret > the RHS as a glob. The = operator just uses simple string comparison, > without interpreting anything.
Interesting. You just asked the regex(3) command if $'\nwombat' contains $'wombat' Maybe you meant to write [[ $'\n'wombat =~ wombat ]] That will still return true [[ wombat =~ $'\n'wombat ]] Will return false, which is what we want as wombat isn't at the start of the line. In my example, I'm trying to match something at the start of a line. -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
