Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes: > I upgraded quite a lot of bash versions in one go, and one of my > shell-scripts broke. I've reproduced it to a simple test case which shows > that either regex tests have turned into non-reg-ex text matches, or that I've > really misunderstood something here. I checked the last few release > announcements and didn't see anything about the behaviour of =~ changing.
Bash 3.2 changed regex syntax. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-10/msg00061.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-12/msg00736.html /usr/share/doc/bash-3.2.9/NEWS item f -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/