Re: bash 3.2 match operator problem

[Andreas Schwab]

John Gatewood Ham <zappaman@buraphalinux.org> writes:

> Thank you for your reply.
>
> I removed the quotes and the script crashes.  There must be more
> required to convert my code and I hope someone will help.  It is
> only 1 line, and once I know the new rules I can convert everything
> else on my own.  I get this when just removing teh quotes on the
> right hand side:
>
> testcase running under 3.2.0(2)-release
> testcase: line 6: unexpected argument `(' to conditional binary operator
> testcase: line 6: syntax error near `(['
> testcase: line 6: `[[ "${OLDCANDIDATE}" =~ 
> ([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-0*([1-9][0-9]*)\.tgz ]]'

Parens are special inside [[ ]], you need to quote them.

Andreas.

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