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Re: Bug in extended pattern matching *!()
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hans1worst |
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Re: Bug in extended pattern matching *!() |
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Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:52:56 -0700 (PDT) |
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G2/1.0 |
> The question is whether or not !(x) should match the empty string. The
> bash matcher treats it similarly to [!x], which does not.
It does however match the empty string at most times. So I guess that's the
real bug. Again, there is some inconsistency in
$ echo *!(x)a # does match empty string
a ba
$ echo a*!(x) # does not
ba
[OT] Thanks for your work for the Bash project. I've just learned that you've
been the main maintainer for a long time, so keep it up! :)