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#!/bin/sh

re="\/$"

if [ $1 =~ $re ]; then
        echo "${ATTENTION_PREFIX}$1 DIRECTORY MAY NOT CONTAIN A \"/\" OR LITERAL SLASH!${ATTENTION_POSTFIX}"
        exit 1
fi

Executing sudo file.sh hello/ results in [: 29: hello: unexpected operator

It looks like that this regular expression method is incorrect for shell scripting.

#!/bin/sh

re="\/$"

if [ $1 =~ $re ]; then
        echo "${ATTENTION_PREFIX}$1 DIRECTORY MAY NOT CONTAIN A \"/\" OR LITERAL SLASH!${ATTENTION_POSTFIX}"
        exit 1
fi

Executing ./file.sh hello/ results in [: 29: hello: unexpected operator

It looks like that this regular expression method is incorrect for shell scripting.

re="\/$"

if [ $1 =~ $re ]; then
        echo "${ATTENTION_PREFIX}$1 DIRECTORY MAY NOT CONTAIN A \"/\" OR LITERAL SLASH!${ATTENTION_POSTFIX}"
        exit 1
fi

Executing sudo file.sh hello/ results in [: 29: hello: unexpected operator

It looks like that this regular expression method is incorrect for shell scripting.

#!/bin/sh

re="\/$"

if [ $1 =~ $re ]; then
        echo "${ATTENTION_PREFIX}$1 DIRECTORY MAY NOT CONTAIN A \"/\" OR LITERAL SLASH!${ATTENTION_POSTFIX}"
        exit 1
fi

Executing sudo file.sh hello/ results in [: 29: hello: unexpected operator

It looks like that this regular expression method is incorrect for shell scripting.