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  Re: How anchor to line end in regex Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> - 2020-08-22 22:40 -0400

#16793 — Re: How anchor to line end in regex

Hi,

> On Aug 22, 2020, at 10:13 PM, Budi <budikusasi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How anchor to line end in bash regex [[ ]]
> h=hi
> [[ $h =~ ^hi\$ ]] && echo Yes
> 
> cannot work, or is it bug yet

Special characters are matched literally if they are quoted, so you
just have to make sure the $ is not quoted.

	$ h=hi
	$ [[ $h =~ ^hi\$ ]] && echo Yes
	$ [[ $h =~ ^hi$ ]] && echo Yes
	Yes

vq

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