I thought about the escapes -- but PCRE doesn't seem to like this any better: PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS='^\/oracle\/.+?\/(sapdata|data|orig|mirr)' failed (and the original needs to have a double \\ in each spot, to escape the escape, for the shell export).

Thanks

Tom

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:30 PM To: Hobbit List Subject: Re: [hobbit] PCRE regular expressions (help?)

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 12:47 -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote:

I thought I knew what I was doing, but apparently not:

PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS='^/oracle/PRD/sapdata.*' failed

I'm trying to use the patch Henrik so kindly provided earlier.

And what I really want to suppress (shell syntax) is: /oracle/*/sapdata* /oracle/*/data? /oracle/*/mirr* /oracle/*/orig*

Here's the generic I tried: PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS='^/oracle/.../sapdata.*| ^/oracle/.../mirr.*| ^/oracle/.../orig.*| ^/oracle/.../data.*' failed

Got to escape the slashes... NORRDISKs="^\/oracle\/.+?\/(sapdata|mirr|data|orig)'

Which reads: begins with /oracle/, followed by as few letters as possible before another slash, then a string starting with sapdata, mirr, data, or orig

-- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX Austin Energy

dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com

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