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Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:00:26 -0600
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Boris Toloknov wrote:
> 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 ?

WJFFM. Maybe you should start with:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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