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 fedora-12, but it gives "outside" in fedora-13. 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. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel