Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

[Alex Schuster]

jan.pradac@××××××.cz writes:

> I have the same problem and I was trying to solve it few weeks ago,
> after almost two weeks of searching and compiling I substituted =~ with
> expr:
>
> - orig use with ~= :
> # if [[ "test" =~ ".*" ]]; then echo "ok"; fi
>
> - alternative use with expr :
> # export TEST_VAR="test"
> # if [[ ${#TEST_VAR} == `expr "${TEST_VAR}" : ".*"` ]]; then echo "ok";
> fi

Or like this:

match=".*"
if [[ "test" =~ $match ]]; then echo "ok"; fi

	Wonko
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