[geeks] bash string matching

[der Mouse]

> [[ "$STRING" =~ "*is a geek*" ]] && echo geek
> [[ "$STRING" =~ ".*is a geek.*" ]] && echo geek

> However, as soon as you need to quote to enclose spaces or other
> delimiters, the matching breaks.

I'm not surprised.  Quoted globbing characters are no longer globbing
characters in every context I've seen.

Try [[ "$STRING" =~ *"is a geek"* ]] instead.

It's like the difference between `echo "*.c"' and `echo *".c"'.

Or, of course, bash could be doing something totally funky here; I do
not actually know bash - I'm just guessing that it'll work the way most
quoting does.

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