From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: "Jerry Rocteur" <macosx@rocteur.cc>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Regexp type pattern matching
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 10:00:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805080900.m4890fnu005197@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30735.153.98.68.197.1210236493.squirrel@webmail.rocteur.com>
"Jerry Rocteur" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm runnign a script under Zsh 4.2.6 on Redhat
>
> I'm spawning an egrep to do pattern matching:
>
> if echo ${USER_NAME}|egrep -q "^[prt][0-9]"
>
> But after a while this stops working and I get:
> rt_sigsuspend(~[HUP CHLD RTMIN RT_1] <unfinished ...
It might be worth trying with a more recent version of the shell; there
are a few fixes for job handling. If you're spawning a *lot* of
processes it might be the one I've just fixed, zsh-users/12815.
> I've tried to find examples but how do I do this pattern matching in zsh with
> out using egrep:
>
> if echo ${USER_NAME}|egrep -q "^[prt][0-9]"
It's straightforward...
if [[ $USER_NAME = [prt][0-9]* ]]; then
...
fi
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-08 8:48 Jerry Rocteur
2008-05-08 9:00 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2008-05-08 9:09 ` Jerry Rocteur
2008-05-08 9:50 ` Stephane Chazelas
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