[GRLUG] Bash glob

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Tue May 7 14:22:55 EDT 2013


On Tue, 7 May 2013, Jeff DeFouw wrote:

> I didn't know bash had a regular expression operator.  Apparently you're
> not supposed to quote the pattern.  Anything between quotes is done as a
> literal string match.
>
I had tried with all quoted combinations, .. but I finally concluded that
bash regex's lacked a 'number' modifier (i.e. the {4} & {2}).

	Thanks!

	Lee


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