On 11/5/06, David Korn <dgk at research.att.com> wrote: > > > Can I concatenate shell pattern and ~(E) pattern in one [[ str == pat > > ]] expression? > > -- > > > > Yes, and with ksh93s, you can do > [[ str =~ re_pat ]] > which is equivalent to > [[ str == ~(E)re_pat ]] How can I concatenate s_pa='[abc]' and re_pat='(foo|bar).*' to one pattern? [ str == [abc]~(E)(foo|bar).* does not work. -- Josh
