Re: How to match regex in bash? (any character)

[Steven W. Orr]

On 9/26/2011 9:19 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know that I should use =~ to match regex (bash version 4).
>
> However, the man page is not very clear. I don't find how to match
> (matching any single character). For example, the following regex
> doesn't match xxxxtxt. Does anybody know how to match any character
> (should be '.' in perl) in bash.
>
> [[ "$1" =~ "xxx.txt" ]]

Looks good to me.

513 > regex='xxx.txt'
514 > [[ xxxxtxt =~ $regex ]]
515 > echo $?
0
516 >


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