Bug 10931

Summary:	String searching
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	Ale <ale5000>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	ale5000, busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description Ale 2018-04-09 08:52:06 UTC

Hi,
it would be nice to support this syntax for string searching:

aaa='My string'
if [[ "$aaa" == *"stri"* ]]; then echo "It's there!"; fi
if [[ "$aaa" =~ .*stri.* ]]; then echo "It's there!"; fi

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2018-04-09 11:22:03 UTC

[[ ]] is a bashism.

You can keep your scripts standard by using:

aa='My string'; if [ "${aaa##*stri*}" = "" ]; then echo "It's there!"; fi