On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Roman Rakus wrote:
> Hi all,
> please take a look at bash faq section E - E14. Quoting:
>
> E14) Why does quoting the pattern argument to the regular expression
> matching conditional operator (=~) cause regexp matching to stop working?
[...]
> Please, take a look in your bash scripts and fix them.
Note also that in many cases it is possible to avoid using =~ altogether and
use plain == and simple globbing (possibly with multiple tests), and in even
more cases with extended globbing turned on. In addition to fewer portability
issues, globbing tends to be faster too.
If using extended globbing, just remember to reset extglob back to what it was
if your script is a sourced, not executed one, e.g. something like:
reset_extglob=$(shopt -p extglob)
shopt -s extglob
[[ "afoo" == *@(foo|bar|quux) ]] && echo hello
# ...
$reset_extglob
(We're not doing the reset in bash-completion yet, but eventually hopefully
will, or find another way to circumvent modifying users' shopt states.)
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