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