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. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-bash-regexp-matching-doesn%27t-treat-%22%5Cb%22-properly-tp26500158p26504147.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
