Bug 191485

Summary:	regular expressions do not work in bash-3.2_p17
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Arne Brutschy <abrutschy>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Arne Brutschy 2007-09-06 11:17:21 UTC

Regular expression tests do not work in 3.2_p17, they do work in 3.1_p17.
Simple tests do work, tests using metacharaters (*[]. etc) do not.

bash-3.2_p17:
# [[ "aa" =~ "b.*" ]];echo $?
1
# [[ "aa" =~ ".*" ]];echo $?
1
# [[ "aa" =~ "aa" ]];echo $?
0

bash-3.1_p17:
# [[ "aa" =~ "b.*" ]];echo $?
1
# [[ "aa" =~ ".*" ]];echo $?
0
# [[ "aa" =~ "aa" ]];echo $?
0


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. [[ "aa" =~ ".*" ]];echo $?

Actual Results:  
returns 1

Expected Results:  
return 0

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-06 11:19:27 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163527 ***