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Re: Why I love bash scripting?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Why I love bash scripting?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:16:03 -0500
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On 12/20/15 8:44 AM, ken.w.martin@gmail.com wrote:

> next, please run
>> bashdb test.sh
> bashdb<0> n
> bashdb<1> n
> bashdb<2> n
> bashdb<3> print ${BASH_REMATCH[0]}
> 
> and you will see that in bashdb BASH_REMATCH is an empty string. It appears 
> the debugger is broken and has probably been so for some time. Could I be 
> doing something wrong?

It's most likely that bashdb uses the =~ operator for its own purposes
and overwrites the BASH_REMATCH contents you want to see.

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