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Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:45:34 -0500
From:	Boris Toloknov <tlknv AT yandex DOT ru>
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Subject:	Bash regular expressions
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It seems that regular expressions [[ str =~ regex ]] do not work in bash.
For example the following expression doesn't match:
[[ abc =~ 'a.*c' ]] && echo It works
while the simple substring matches:
[[ abc =~ 'bc' ]] && echo It works
Is it a bug ?

Thanks,
Boris



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