> And this is how. Quoting any part of the rhs forces it to be matched
> as a string.
Okay, that's very clear. Maybe the man page could be updated?
> Patch 39, which you appear to have applied, introduces a `compat31' shell
> option which you may enable to restore the bash-3.1 behavior.
Ah! And
> > Description:
> >[[ ... =~ ... ]] is broken when RHS is quoted
>
> from http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/CHANGES :
>
> f. Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces
> string matching, as with the other pattern-matching operators.
Hmmm ... ok, than
bash 3.2-4
dpkg.log:2008-06-17 06:25:34 status installed bash 3.2-4
So I'm almost certain this is a bug introduced in bash 3.2. The COMPAT
and CHANGES files don't list anything that might mean this is a
change rather than a bug :-)
Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Regar
