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regex in bash
this sounds good ^[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]{0,$((LEN-1))}$- qjulian
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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regex in bash
hello, I want to check in bash shell if a string on VAR does not begin with "-" and at the same time if the string is built of [-_a-zA-Z0-9] but not longer than specified on LEN variable LEN=10 [[ $VAR =~ ^[_a-zA-Z0-9][-_a-zA-Z0-9]{1,${LEN}}$ ]] how to test length of whole marked in red is not...- qjulian
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
