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Re: DEL character treated specially when preceded by a backslash when us
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: DEL character treated specially when preceded by a backslash when used in the RHS of the regex operator ([[ $'\177' =~ $'\\\177' ]]) |
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Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:01:30 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 03:46:38PM -0800, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> [[ $'\a' =~ $'\a' ]] -> 0
> [[ $'\a' =~ $'\\\a' ]] -> 0
> [[ $'\a' =~ $'\\[\a]' ]] -> 1
> ---
> [[ $'\177' =~ $'\177' ]] -> 0
> [[ $'\177' =~ $'\\\177' ]] -> 1
> [[ $'\177' =~ $'\\[\177]' ]] -> 1
> Notice that only $'\177' seems to fail in the middle case, while the
> others work just fine.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why do you consider that to be wrong?
I would expect [[ x =~ yx ]] to fail (return 1) every time. In fact
I'd consider this result:
> [[ $'\a' =~ $'\\\a' ]] -> 0
to be wrong. And in fact, on my version of bash I get a different result:
imadev:~$ [[ $'\a' =~ $'\\\a' ]] ; echo $?
1
imadev:~$ echo $BASH_VERSION
4.3.0(1)-beta2
I get a return value of 1 in every version of bash I tried except
bash 3.1, which returns 0, and bash 2.05b, which gives a syntax
error because it doesn't have =~ yet.