Bash regular expressions

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 while the simple substring matches: [[ abc =~ 'bc' ]] && echo It works Is it a bug ? Thanks, Boris -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: Bash regular expressions

I tried: [[ abc =~ a.*c ]] && echo It works It doesn't work too. I did't try bash from gnu.org yet but debian bash (version 3.1.0(1)) works with and without quotes. Boris Eric Blake wrote: According to Boris Toloknov on 12/19/2006 1:45 PM: It seems that regular expressio

Re: Bash regular expressions

You are right. Without quotes it works: [[ abc =~ a.*c ]] && echo Yes Yes I was sure I tried that. Sorry. Thanks a lot, Boris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm