Bug 800750

Summary: bash 4.2.10 doesn't support =~ operator?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Freax <holmes86>
Component: bashAssignee: Roman Rakus <rrakus>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Freax 2012-03-07 06:50:06 UTC 
Description of problem:
I execute the command as follow on Bash 4.2.10 of Fedora 16:
$ [[ "abcd" =~ "a.*d" ]] && echo true
$ 

As Bash 3.2.25 of RHEL 5.4:
$ [[ "abcd" =~ "a.*d" ]] && echo true
true


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Bash 4.2.10

How reproducible:
[[ "abcd" =~ "a.*d" ]] && echo true

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Actual results:
can echo "true"

Expected results:
doesn't echo "true"


Additional info:
Comment 1 Roman Rakus 2012-03-07 12:43:58 UTC 
It was bug in previous versions. See documentation. When you use double quotes "" the pattern is matched as string.