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[Help-bash] Does bash support ENHANCED FEATURES in re_format(7)?


From: Peng Yu
Subject: [Help-bash] Does bash support ENHANCED FEATURES in re_format(7)?
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 22:19:20 -0500

Hi,

re_format(7) says (under ENHANCED FEATURES)
117            \d  Matches a digit character.  This is equivalent to
`[[:digit:]]'.


The following code shows that '\d' does not work. Does bash support
these ENHANCED FEATURES in re_format(7)?

~/linux/test/bash/man/pattern/[[:digit:]]$ ./main.sh
x=123
echo "${x//[[:digit:]]}"

echo "${x//\d}"
123

~/linux/test/bash/man/pattern/[[:digit:]]$ cat main.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -v
x=123
echo "${x//[[:digit:]]}"
echo "${x//\d}"

-- 
Regards,
Peng



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