On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> Indeed - \b is a GNU extension available in glibc's regcomp(), but not
> required by POSIX nor available in newlib. Unless/until someone
> contributes patches to write the same extensions to the POSIX interface,
> then bash won't be able to m
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According to Mark J. Reed on 10/19/2009 6:34 PM:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Allen Halsey wrote:
> These should print "Matched", but they don't:
>
> $ REGEX='\bcat\b'
> $ [[ "dog cat bird" =~ $REGEX ]] && echo "Matched"
> $ REGEX='\'
> $ [[ "do
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Allen Halsey wrote:
These should print "Matched", but they don't:
$ REGEX='\bcat\b'
$ [[ "dog cat bird" =~ $REGEX ]] && echo "Matched"
$ REGEX='\'
$ [[ "dog cat bird" =~ $REGEX ]] && echo "Matched"
It's worth noting that this is not limited to Cygwin; I'm seeing t
These should print "Matched", but they don't:
$ REGEX='\bcat\b'
$ [[ "dog cat bird" =~ $REGEX ]] && echo "Matched"
$ REGEX='\'
$ [[ "dog cat bird" =~ $REGEX ]] && echo "Matched"
$
egrep works as expected:
$ egrep -q '\bcat\b' <(echo "dog cat bird") && echo "Matched"
Matched
$ egrep -q '\' <(echo
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