From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:18:07 +0200
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Subject: bash regexp question
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Please look at the following code:
case ${PWD-`pwd`} in
/*) 
	echo POSIX;;
?:[/\\]*) 
	echo MS-DOS;;
esac

I would expect that the code prints: MS-DOS.
The fact is that it does nothing.
If I replace the regular expresion: [/\\] by [\\/]
the code works.
Is this a bash bug or some Posix feature completely
unknow to me. I am using stock bash203.

I have found *similar* code in conf.sh. This file is part
of rcs5713s.zip and of course I can not configure the
package due to this "misfeature" or bug in bash.


TIA for any help.
Guerrero, Juan Manuel