Simply said, I just can't find a way to match a variable against some pattern containing spaces.
Here is what I expected to work (echo 'ok' string)
item='foobar baz'
pat=".+bar baz"
if [[ "$item" =~ "$pat" ]] ; then
echo ok
fi
Adding/removing quotes around $pat does not seem to make any difference. I get those two erros below:
bash: conditional binary operator expected
bash: syntax error near `~='
Could someone please help me pointing out what I am doing wrong here ? Should I put the pattern right away (without any quotes/double quotes, nor variable reference) ? If that is the case, then how can I put spaces in ? (using reg-exp matching, not an alternative)
Thank you !