On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:19:22AM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > I'm trying to get regular expression matching working on both bash v3 > as well as v4.
Put the RE in a variable. > The following works on v4 (under RHEL6), but not under bash 3.00.15 > (under RHEL4): > > [[ "6Server" =~ ([0-9]+)(.*) ]] Put the RE in a variable. > This works on 3.00.15, but not under RHEL6's bash (4.1.2): > > [[ "6Server" =~ '([0-9]+)(.*)' ]] Put the RE in a variable. Don't quote the right hand side. If you quote the right hand side, it becomes == matching instead of =~ matching. re='([0-9]+)(.*)' [[ 6Server =~ $re ]]
