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Why statement works in LINUX and not UNIX?

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I have a ksh script that uses code below. For some reason it works under linux but fails in unix. Any idea why?

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if [[ "$instance" =~ "DEV" ]]; then ...

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=~ is BASH-only syntax, and only very new versions of BASH at that.

Most shells will let you do if [[ "$instance" == *DEV* ]] however.

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Thanks guys,
My linux bash version is
GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

For unix, I can't even find one. I tried

Code:

bash --version

Code:

which bash

Code:

/bin/bash --version

When I do

Code:

man bash

it gives me No manual entry for bash. Is it possible that I do not even have one.

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Yes, bash is a GNU program and is typically not installed on unix systems. ksh is quite similar and is a good alternative but some bash features will not be available (checkout this Bash/KSH Protability Issues link for some things to look out for).

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$ echo $KSH_VERSION
@(#)MIRBSD KSH R48 2013/08/16
$  [[ "dfjdkfDEVfjfj" == *DEV* ]] && echo yes
yes

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Originally Posted by rdogadin

For unix, I can't even find one.

BASH is not the only shell in the universe, or even the only Bourne shell. sh is the ancestor of ksh and bash, which have different extended features on top of ordinary sh but remain mostly compatible with ordinary sh code.

bash incorporates many features of ksh, the == syntax I showed earlier being one of them.

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Thank you all for your replies. I guess one thing I am confused about is if I run my script under Korn Shell (#!/bin/ksh) on both unix and linux then why does it matter if I have BASH installed and what version of BASH I have?
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