Greg Wooledge wrote: > In this particular case, I would use a glob rather than an ERE, > because "h?" is much simpler than "^h.$".
Besides, bash's extended globs provide everything ERE's provide. I use
the idiom:
shopt -s extglob
# for example, to check for numbers
case "-${something}" in -+([[:digit:]])) echo "number";; esac
all the time.
clemens
