Re: regexp matching broken in bash-3.2.x?

[Pierre Gaston]

On 10/27/07, Bernd Eggink <monoped@sudrala.de> wrote:
> Pavel Gorshkov schrieb:
>
> > Description:
> >     Regexp matching seems to be broken since 3.2.0.
> > Repeat-By:
> >     The following used to work in bash-3.1:
> >       $ [[ test =~ 't.*t' ]]; echo $?
> >       1
>
> It works without the quotes. Looks like they are taken literally instead of
> being removed. I, too, f.think it's a bug, as according to  the docs, quote
> removal should be performed on the words between [[ and ]].

The behavior changed with 3.2, from the NEWS file:

" Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's  =~ operator now forces
  string matching, as with the other pattern-matching operators."

Quoting removal is performed but [[ is not a normal command (it's a
shell keyword)