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Re: Bash regular expressions


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:


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