Re: [[ str =~ "^pattern" ]] no longer works

[Roman Rakus]

On 11/04/2011 09:09 AM, flong@dell1.localdomain wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' 
> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib  -D_GNU_SOURCE 
> -DRECYCLES_PIDS  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions 
> -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic
> uname output: Linux dell1 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 20 03:51:51 BST 
> 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 4.1
> Patch Level: 2
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
>      The [[ str =~ "^pattern" ]] operator no longer works correctly.  "^"
>      is treated as a literal instead of matching the beginning of the line.
>
> Repeat-By:
>
>      [[ "-h" =~ '^-h' ]] ; echo $?
>      Should return 0, but instead returns 1.
It was bug in previous versions of bash in fedora and RHEL.
This behavior is correct now.

RR