X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45A96D56.7F112403@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:37:58 -0800 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: bash in process regular expressions References: <20070113232442 DOT 63884 DOT qmail AT web54404 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Rodrigo Amestica wrote: > Hi, when I write a bash script using regular > expressions something goes wrong with the single > quotes that I do understand should surround the > regular expression. The code I show below works okay > when the single quotes are removed, but it does not as > shown. For this example the single quotes are not > really needed but is useful for showing my problem, my > real script does need the single quotes because I'm > trying to match several sub-expressions. Read the replies in this recent thread: Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/