Re: =~ no longer working in bash-4.1

[Roman Rakus]

On 06/08/2010 02:23 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> =~ no longer working in bash. just try this little line:
> -----------------------------
> if [[ "abc" =~ "abc.*" ]]; then echo inside; else echo outside; fi
> -----------------------------
> this give "inside" up to 4.0, but it gives "outside" in 4.1.
> imho it's a serious changes since all shell script will fail which use
> =~ :-(
> is there any reason for this? or any quick fixes?
> thanks in advance.
> regards.
>
>    
I guess, you are talking about Fedora/RHEL, am I right? If so, it was 
bug in the bash-4.0 in those distributions. It was fixed and is working 
now as upstream bash.

Read the bash-faq E14. You can set the compat31 shopt. For more read the 
man page of bash - shopt builtin.

RR