On 10/27/07, Bernd Eggink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pavel Gorshkov schrieb: > > > Description: > > Regexp matching seems to be broken since 3.2.0. > > Repeat-By: > > The following used to work in bash-3.1: > > $ [[ test =~ 't.*t' ]]; echo $? > > 1 > > It works without the quotes. Looks like they are taken literally instead of > being removed. I, too, f.think it's a bug, as according to the docs, quote > removal should be performed on the words between [[ and ]].
The behavior changed with 3.2, from the NEWS file: " Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces string matching, as with the other pattern-matching operators." Quoting removal is performed but [[ is not a normal command (it's a shell keyword)
