On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:47:18PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 20:32, Drake Wyrm wrote: > > I could be missing something, but: > > > > [[ $'\nwombat' =~ $'wombat' ]] && \ > > echo "These compare as equal, with or without the leading \n" > > A working example in bash-3.2 :) > > [[ $(</proc/mounts) =~ $'\n'/dev/root\ ]] \ > && echo "Yay, I matched ^/dev/root " > > I challenge you to get an exact match of /dev/root being on the first line
You mean being first on a line, right? > using the == operator and/or quoting. > Remember, /dev/root/foo and /dev/foo /dev/root must not match either. > > If you can you get credit in the ChangeLog :) [[ " $(</proc/mounts)" == *" /dev/root "* ]] && echo "Yay, I matched ^/dev/root" You can use $'\n' instead of actual newline characters, of course. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
