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I tried: [[ abc =~ a.*c ]] && echo It works It doesn't work too. I did't try bash from gnu.org yet but debian bash (version 3.1.0(1)) works with and without quotes.
According to Boris Toloknov on 12/19/2006 1:45 PM:
It seems that regular expressions [[ str =~ regex ]] do not work in bash.
For example the following expression doesn't match:
[[ abc =~ 'a.*c' ]] && echo It works
In bash 3.2, the [[ ]] quoting rules changed slightly. Since [[ already introduces special quoting rules, single quotes are not required; the regex is already protected by the shell from globbing. Try this instead:
[[ abc =~ a.*c ]] && echo It works
And since none of this is cygwin specific, you should report this upstream
to bug-bash AT gnu DOT org if you think it is a bug.
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