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
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