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Re: Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat "\b" properly
Hugh Myers:
> This might come across as slightly smart-assed, but if you wrote your
> script in Perl, you wouldn't have the platform problem, nor the
> word-boundary problem. True you would have a Perl problem, but that
> would still be several orders of magnitude easier than trying to have
> Linux, Cygwin and Posix come to agreement!! :)
As soon as Perl becomes the default shell...
Seriously, there are times to use Perl and times not to...
But launching perl seems a bit of overkill when I just have to do a simple
match in a .bashrc script or when I need a small shell script wrapper.
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