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Re: Why I love bash scripting?

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Why I love bash scripting?
Date	2015-12-21 16:16 -0500
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On 12/20/15 8:44 AM, ken.w.martin@gmail.com wrote:

> next, please run
>> bashdb test.sh
> bashdb<0> n
> bashdb<1> n
> bashdb<2> n
> bashdb<3> print ${BASH_REMATCH[0]}
> 
> and you will see that in bashdb BASH_REMATCH is an empty string. It appears the debugger is broken and has probably been so for some time. Could I be doing something wrong?

It's most likely that bashdb uses the =~ operator for its own purposes
and overwrites the BASH_REMATCH contents you want to see.

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Why I love bash scripting? ken.w.martin@gmail.com - 2015-12-20 05:44 -0800
  Re: Why I love bash scripting? Eduardo A. Bustamante López <dualbus@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 23:52 -0600
  Re: Why I love bash scripting? Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-12-21 16:16 -0500

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