Re: Matching regular expression with Ctrl-A in the middle

2011-05-07 Thread Shawn Bohrer
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 5/4/11 11:23 AM, Shawn Bohrer wrote: >> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: >> Machine: x86_64 >> OS: linux-gnu >> Compiler: gcc >> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' >> -DCONF_OSTYP

Re: Matching regular expression with Ctrl-A in the middle

2011-05-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/5/11 8:26 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > imadev:~$ bash-4.1.7 > imadev:~$ re=$'o\001world$' string=$'hello\001world'; [[ $string =~ $re ]] && > echo match > imadev:~$ > > It works fine with Ctrl-B for whatever reason: That's because C-A is the internal `backslash' quoting character and ne

Re: Matching regular expression with Ctrl-A in the middle

2011-05-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/4/11 11:23 AM, Shawn Bohrer wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: x86_64 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' >

Re: Matching regular expression with Ctrl-A in the middle

2011-05-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:23:20AM -0500, Shawn Bohrer wrote: > -bash-4.1$ [[ "helloworld" =~ oworld$ ]] && echo match > -bash-4.1$ Confirmed here (HP-UX 10.20), even using the approved "stuff the RE into a variable" workaround that fixes most =~ problems: imadev:~$ bash-4.1.7 imadev:~$ re

Matching regular expression with Ctrl-A in the middle

2011-05-04 Thread Shawn Bohrer
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale'