Re: How to match regex in bash? (any character)

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/29/11 9:48 AM, Peng Yu wrote:

> Therefore, either bash manpage should specify clearly which regex
> manpage it should be in each system (which a bad choice, because there
> can be a large number of systems), or the bash manpage should omit all
> the non consistent reference and say something like "see more details
> in info" or something else that is platform independent. Referring to
> regex(3) without any quantification is not a very good choice .

Why, exactly?  regex(3) is the one thing that's portable across systems,
it happens to describe the interfaces bash uses, and it contains the
appropriate system-specific references.  `info' is considerably less
portable and widespread than `man', so a man page reference is the best
choice.

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