On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Farkas Levente <lfar...@lfarkas.org> wrote:
> hi, > =~ no longer working in bash. just try this little line: > ----------------------------- > if [[ "abc" =~ "abc.*" ]]; then echo inside; else echo outside; fi > ----------------------------- > this give "inside" up to 4.0, but it gives "outside" in 4.1. > imho it's a serious changes since all shell script will fail which use > =~ :-( > is there any reason for this? or any quick fixes? > thanks in advance. > regards. > > -- > Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" > > if [[ "abc" =~ abc.* ]]; The pattern should not be quoted since bash 3.2, I doubt it works in 4.0.
