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Re: How to match regex in bash? (any character)
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: How to match regex in bash? (any character) |
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Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:51:16 -0400 |
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On 10/2/11 3:43 PM, Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
> [*] actually, bash does some (undocumented) preprocessing on the
> regexps, so even the regex(3) reference is misleading here.
Not really. The words are documented to undergo quote removal, so
they undergo quote removal. That turns \1 into 1, for instance.
Chet
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