On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 00:25, Stephen Gran wrote: > Does anyone know the POSIX standard well enough to know if this is a > bug in dash, or a bashism? $ touch a1 $ bash $ echo a[[:digit:]] a1 $ dash $ echo a[[:digit:]] a[[:digit:]] $ posh $ echo a[[:digit:]] a1 The posh shell is supposed to be strictly POSIX and it accepts '[[:digit:]]', so I guess this is a bug in dash. -- Thomas Hood