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From: Hugh Myers <hsmyers AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:54:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat "\b" properly
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This might come across as slightly smart-assed, but if you wrote your
script in Perl, you wouldn't have the platform problem, nor the
word-boundary problem. True you would have a Perl problem, but that
would still be several orders of magnitude easier than trying to have
Linux, Cygwin and Posix come to agreement!! :)

--hsm

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:40 PM, aputerguy <nabble AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
>
> Dave Korn writes:
>
>> Bash man page for '~=3D' refers to man regex(3) which refers to man rege=
x(7)
>> which describes word boundary markers as below:
>>
>> $ [[ "foo" =3D~ [[:\<:]]foo[[:\>:]] ]]; echo $?
>> 0
>>
>> $ [[ "foobar" =3D~ [[:\<:]]foo[[:\>:]] ]]; echo $?
>> 1
>
> Thanks David!
> I had actually greppe'd both regex(3) and regex(7) before but I was looki=
ng
> for the word "word" or "boundary" - neither of which are used in this
> context.
>
> HOWEVER, this solution while sweet for cygwin-bash, has the CONVERSE
> PROBLEM.
> Apparently, the special strings [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] are not recognized un=
der
> Linux regex(7) - they give return code 2.
>
> So, now I have the frustrating situation where \\b works in Linux but not=
 in
> Cygwin while [[:<:]] works in Cygwin but not in Linux.
>
> BTW, both regex(7) pages even imply they are POSIX.
> Linux: "regex POSIX.2 regular expressions"
> Cygwin: "regex - POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions"
>
> Such incompatibility is a PITA because then in a mixed Windows/Linux
> environment one has to remember to clutter scripts with ugly "if [ "$OSTY=
PE"
> =3D "cygwin" ] exceptions, etc.
>
>
>
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