On Mo, 2017-12-04 at 16:49 -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > The thing is, bash doesn't "implement" its regular expressions, per > se. > Bash uses the Posix standard library functions (regcomp/regexec) if > they > are available in the C library when it's configured and built. I'm > not > wild about adding a dependency on pcre, or a configure test for it, > just > to have two varieties of regular expressions available. > > Chet
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