Re: RFE: allow double quotes to group multi-words & be treated as 1 arg, w/DQ's stripped off -- including RH =~

[Linda Walsh]

Oi vey.

Is that the only thing that will be affected by shopt -s compat31?
Or perhaps that shopt needs to be a bit more specific.



> So your example would have worked with "shopt -s compat31".
> 


>From the file COMPAT:

33. Bash-3.2 adopts the convention used by other string and pattern matching
    operators for the `[[' compound command, and matches any quoted portion
    of the right-hand-side argument to the =~ operator as a string rather
    than a regular expression.


...
Other string operators?  What other ones operate this way?

This is what I'm referring to:

a="hi"
if [[ "hi" == "$a" ]]; then echo "this matches"; fi
if [[ 'hi' == '$a' ]] then echo "this doesn't"; fi

I would prefer this work:

a="h."

if [[ "hi" =~ "$a" ]];....

That would make "sense" though I'm not sure what other string operators we
are trying to be consistent with.

Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.