On 12/20/15 8:44 AM, ken.w.mar...@gmail.com wrote: > next, please run >> bashdb test.sh > bashdb<0> n > bashdb<1> n > bashdb<2> n > bashdb<3> print ${BASH_REMATCH[0]} > > and you will see that in bashdb BASH_REMATCH is an empty string. It appears > the debugger is broken and has probably been so for some time. Could I be > doing something wrong?
It's most likely that bashdb uses the =~ operator for its own purposes and overwrites the BASH_REMATCH contents you want to see. -- ``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/