On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:28:39PM -0700, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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 ]] >
Thanks Greg!
