=~ about oksh HOT 3 CLOSED

=~ is a bash extension that zsh has also picked up.
It is neither part of POSIX nor the Korn shell.
If you feel strongly about the inclusion of =~ in oksh, please implement the operator then send your patch to the OpenBSD tech@ mailing list.
This repository is not a staging ground for new ideas. It is a stable repository for other operating systems to obtain the current state of OpenBSD ksh.

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It is neither part of POSIX nor the Korn shell.

Then oksh's parser should fail with a syntactic error, instead of accepting "=~" as an operator and letting the script terminate with incorrect results.

However, since oksh IS accepting the operator, then it may rewrite "A =~ B" as "A == *B*" and move on, instead of returning an incorrect result.

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Submit a diff to tech@

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