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From: Ernie Rael <err@raelity.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Change PS1 when running as administrator
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A078BD.9020402@raelity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1195111819.20140617203419@yandex.ru>

On 6/17/2014 9:34 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:

>>       [[ $(id -G) =~ \b544\b ]]
>> was suggested (the suggestion used symbolic name instead of a number and
>> didn't use word boundary). Seems like word boundary is needed, but I
>> couldn't get this to work. Are the regex boundary matchers not
>> supported  by bash =~ operator?
> I don't think bash equivalent of test implements Perl RE.
> Neither the base test implementation, to that extent.

I thought, perhaps incorrectly, that \b has been around forever and is 
posix.

In any event, looks like

     [[ $(id -G) =~ (^| )544($| ) ]]

would work.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-17 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-17  8:45 GrahamC
2014-06-17 16:23 ` Ernie Rael
2014-06-17 16:35   ` Andrey Repin
2014-06-17 17:22     ` Ernie Rael [this message]
2014-06-17 19:17       ` Eric Blake
2014-06-17 19:16   ` Eric Blake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-16 18:40 GrahamC
2014-06-16 19:00 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-06-16 20:03   ` Frank Fesevur
2014-06-16 11:24 Frank Fesevur
2014-06-16 19:06 ` Achim Gratz
2014-06-16 20:05   ` Frank Fesevur
2014-06-17  6:53     ` Thomas Wolff
2014-06-17  7:09       ` Achim Gratz

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