Linda Walsh <b...@tlinx.org> writes: > I would prefer this work: > > a="h." > > if [[ "hi" =~ "$a" ]];....
This works (both with and without compat31): [[ "hi" =~ $a ]] && echo matches (It doesn't matter how you quote the lhs, anyway.) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
