On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 04:15:36PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: > > > On July 27, 2022 3:47:56 PM GMT+02:00, Andrew Hewus Fresh > <and...@afresh1.com> wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 11:06:39AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: > >> I think replacing '*' with '*([![:cntrl:]])' can be the droid your looking > >> for. > > > >As I was falling asleep last night I was trying to figure out how to get > >'*([!$_nl])' into the match and couldn't think of a good one. Your > >solution is much better. > > > >I think that would end up looking like: ^cpu0:*([![:cntrl:]])Intel(R) > >although I recall some weirdness with metachars in a variable so I'll > >have to test it out. > > Yeah, it was pointed out to me. I was only able to test on ksh93, so that > might be a dead end. > > /Alexander
$ cat u.sh _s="cpu0: gen Intel" _m="cpu0:*([![:cntrl:]])Intel" if [[ $_s = *$_m* ]]; then echo T1 matched fi if [[ $_s = *cpu0:*([![:cntrl:]])Intel* ]]; then echo T2 matched fi $ ksh u.sh T2 matched $ ksh93 u.sh T1 matched T2 matched $ bash u.sh T1 matched T2 matched