[geeks] bash string matching

[Phil Stracchino]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> How do you input complex globs or regex's in bash conditional  
> statements?  Surely there has to be some way of doing it?

Well, personally, when stuff gets complex, I use Perl.  I find that even
just the time and frustration saved are worth it.



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