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

[Chet Ramey]

> Seems I used 'man regex' as well here.  AKA regex(3).  But I did
> realize this a few weeks ago; the real regex description being 'man 7 regex'.
> The Bash Manual Page denotes only regex(3).

Not all the world is Linux.  The regex(3) reference is the only one
that is consistent across different operating systems.  In addition
to the ones I mentioned above, Solaris and HP-UX use regexp(5), for
example.

I think the texinfo manual could stand a few more examples, especially
for the =~ operator.

Chet

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