Alexis Huxley wrote:
Bash Version: 3.2
Patch Level: 39
Release Status: release
Description:
[[ ... =~ ... ]] is broken when RHS is quoted
The behavior changed, intentionally, between bash-3.1 and bash-3.2.
# As described by OP, =~ has stopped working:
lasagne$ bash -c '[[ "apple" =~ "^(apple)" ]]; echo ${BASH_REMATCH[1]}'
<--- no output!
And this is how. Quoting any part of the rhs forces it to be matched
as a string.
Patch 39, which you appear to have applied, introduces a `compat31' shell
option which you may enable to restore the bash-3.1 behavior.
Chet
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