On 9/29/11 1:46 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > An additional binary operator, =~, is available, with the same > precedence as == and !=. When it is used, the string to the > right of the operator is considered an extended regular > expression and matched accordingly (as in regex(3)). The return > value is 0 if the string matches the pattern, and 1 otherwise. > If the regular expression is syntactically incorrect, the > conditional expression's return value is 2. If the shell option > nocasematch is enabled, the match is performed without regard to > the case of alphabetic characters. Any part of the pattern may > be quoted to force it to be matched as a string. > > The last sentence in the quote above.
I've changed that line in the current version of the manual page. It now reads: `Any part of the pattern may be quoted to force the quoted portion to be matched as a string.' Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/