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From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Subject:  Re: Bash regex tests wh'appen?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:41:25 +0000 (UTC)
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Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes:

>   I upgraded quite a lot of bash versions in one go, and one of my
> shell-scripts broke.  I've reproduced it to a simple test case which shows
> that either regex tests have turned into non-reg-ex text matches, or that I've
> really misunderstood something here.  I checked the last few release
> announcements and didn't see anything about the behaviour of =~ changing.

Bash 3.2 changed regex syntax.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-10/msg00061.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-12/msg00736.html
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2.9/NEWS item f

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Eric Blake




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