On 2/5/11 8:51 AM, Emmett Culley wrote:
> I have a bash script I've been using in CentOS that no longer works in Fedora 
> 14. The pertinent lines are:
>
> mac=`echo $2 | tr a-z A-Z`
> if [[ "$mac" =~ 
> '[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]'
>  ]]; then
>    echo 'good'
> else
>    echo 'Invalid MAC address'
> fi
>
> In CentOS or RHEL5 setting parameter 2 = 00:00:00:00:af:df works as expected, 
> but not in Fedora.  By adding -x to the first line of the script the output 
> to the terminal in CentOS looks like this:
>
> ++ echo 00:00:00:00:af:df
> ++ tr a-z A-Z
> + mac=00:00:00:00:AF:DF
> + [[ 00:00:00:00:AF:DF =~ 
> [0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]:[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]
>  ]]
> + echo good
> good
>
> In Fedora it looks like this:
>
> ++ echo 00:00:00:00:af:df
> ++ tr a-z A-Z
> + mac=00:00:00:00:AF:DF
> + [[ 00:00:00:00:AF:DF =~ 
> \[0-9A-F]\[0-9A-F]:\[0-9A-F]\[0-9A-F]:\[0-9A-F]\[0-9A-F]:\[0-9A-F]\[0-9A-F]:\[0-9A-F]\[0-9A-F]:\[0-9A-F]\[0-9A-F]
>  ]]
> + echo 'Invalid MAC address'
> Invalid MAC address
>
> Note the "\" before each "[" in the regular expression.
>
That is an error as BASH in FC14 is trying to escape the left bracket 
and should not be doing so.

Check the FC bugzilla and if there is not a bug report, file one.

James McKenzie

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