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