05-15-2013
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Originally Posted by
Scott
Use =~ in place of ==
I think you may have misunderstood the OP's problem statement. They are using == to test for equality and are asking how to test for inequality. The inverse of == is !=, not =~.
== and != treat the right operand as a pattern (glob). =~ has the same sense of equality as == but it expects an extended regular expression instead of shell pattern matching notation.
Regards,
Alister
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