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Re: Re: Why bash failed to match this pattern?


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Pan ruochen
> But some bash does match the pattern:

It's possible that the behavior has changed between bash versions, but
the behavior is not Cygwin-specific.  3.2.17 on OS X also suppresses
metacharacters with quotation marks, and the documentation indicates
that this is the expected behavior. See

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Conditional-Constructs

Under [[...]],  third paragraph: "An additional binary operator, â=~â,
is available [...] Any part of the pattern may be quoted to force it
to be matched as a string."




> $bash --version
> GNU bash, version 3.2.33(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Maybe some settings affect bash's behaviour.
>
> PRC
>



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