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Re: =~ no longer working in bash-4.1
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: =~ no longer working in bash-4.1 |
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Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:16:28 -0400 |
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 02:23:48PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
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> if [[ "abc" =~ "abc.*" ]]; then echo inside; else echo outside; fi
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> this give "inside" up to 4.0, but it gives "outside" in 4.1.
If you want the .* to be taken as a regular expression, rather than a literal
period and asterisk, you must remove the quotes from around it.
if [[ abc =~ abc.* ]]; then echo match; else echo no match; fi