in f13 =~ no longer working in bash

Sergeev Pavel Vourhey at yandex.ru
Tue Jun 8 12:34:16 UTC 2010


08.06.10, 16:14, "Farkas Levente" <lfarkas at lfarkas.org>:

> hi,
>  =~ no longer working in bash. just try this little line:
>  -----------------------------
>  if [[ "abc" =~ "abc.*" ]]; then echo inside; else echo outside; fi
>  -----------------------------
>  this give "inside" up to fedora-12, but it gives
>  "outside" in fedora-13.
>  imho it's a serious changes since all shell script will fail which use
>  =~ :-(
>  is there any reason for this? or any quick fixes?
>  thanks in advance.
>  regards.
>  
>  
Hi,

[Vourhey at localhost ~]$ shopt -s compat31
[Vourhey at localhost ~]$ if [[ "abc" =~ "abc.*" ]]; then echo inside; else echo outside; fi
inside

Regards,


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