On 12/7/13, 6:33 PM, Peter Cordes wrote: > I agree your complaint seems valid, but it's the behaviour of the > regex engine built into GNU libc (in this case). Bash on other > platforms would use the regex engine in their system libc. (Unless > I'm mistaken in my assumption that bash doesn't have its own regex > engine.)
This is correct. Bash uses whatever Posix regexp engine is in libc. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/