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Re: =~ behaves differently in bash 3.2 and 3.0
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Stephane CHAZELAS |
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Re: =~ behaves differently in bash 3.2 and 3.0 |
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:16:01 +0000 (UTC) |
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2008-10-24, 14:56(+08), Clark J. Wang:
> In bash 3.0.14, the condition [[ file.txt =~ .*\\.txt\$ ]] returns TRUE but
> in 3.2.39 it returns FALSE. But with the shopt option `compat31' set it also
> returns TRUE. Is that reasonable? In the bash manual, `compat31' makes sense
> only for quoted patterns. The string .*\\.txt\$ is considered to be quoted?
See question E14 in the bash FAQ.
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Stéphane