# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # # simple expansion -- no problem, it's quote_string_for_globbing that was flawed c=$'\177' r="\\$c" recho $r # first, match some regular expressions containing ^A, ^G, ^? [[ $'\001' =~ $'\001' ]] ; echo $? [[ $'\001' =~ $'\\\001' ]] ; echo $? [[ $'\001' =~ $'\\[\001]' ]] ; echo $? [[ $'\a' =~ $'\a' ]] ; echo $? [[ $'\a' =~ $'\\\a' ]] ; echo $? [[ $'\a' =~ $'\\[\a]' ]] ; echo $? [[ $'\177' =~ $'\177' ]] ; echo $? [[ $'\177' =~ $'\\\177' ]] ; echo $? [[ $'\177' =~ $'\\[\177]' ]] ; echo $? # Now let's try it with variables expanding to those values for c in $'\001' $'\a' $'\177' ; do for r in "$c" "\\$c" "\\[$c]"; do [[ $c =~ $r ]]; printf '[[ %q =~ %q ]] -> %d\n' "$c" "$r" "$?"; done; printf %s\\n --- done # try again with literals [[ '' =~ $'' ]] ; echo $? [[ '' =~ '\' ]] ; echo $? [[ '' =~ '\[]' ]] ; echo $? [[ '' =~ '' ]] ; echo $? [[ '' =~ '\' ]] ; echo $? [[ '' =~ '\[]' ]] ; echo $? [[ '' =~ $'' ]] ; echo $? [[ '' =~ '\' ]] ; echo $? [[ '' =~ '\[]' ]] ; echo $? # more expansions, but with literal non-special characters [[ x =~ \x ]] ; echo $? [[ x =~ \\x ]] ; echo $? bs='\' [[ x =~ ${bs}x ]] ; echo $? [[ x =~ $'\\'x ]] ; echo $? [[ x =~ '\'x ]] ; echo $? v='a\-b' [[ a-b =~ ${v} ]] ; echo $? [[ a-b =~ a\-b ]]; echo $? [[ a-b =~ a${bs}-b ]]; echo $? [[ a-b =~ a\\-b ]] ; echo $? [[ a-b =~ "a\-b" ]] ; echo $? c=$'\001' recho $c "$c" [[ $c == $c ]] && echo ok 1 [[ $c =~ $c ]] && echo ok 2 [[ $c =~ \\$c ]] || echo ok 3 [[ $c =~ \\"$c" ]] || echo ok 4 [[ $c =~ "\\"$c ]] || echo ok 5 [[ $c =~ '\'$c ]] || echo ok 6 [[ $c =~ "\\""$c" ]] || echo ok 7 [[ $c =~ '\'"$c" ]] || echo ok 8