How do I negate a test with regular expressions in a bash script?

Using GNU bash (version 4.0.35(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu), I would like to negate a test with Regular Expressions. For example, I would like to conditionally add a path to the PATH variable, if the path is not already there, as in: TEMP=/mnt/silo/bin if [[ ${PATH} =~ ${TEMP} ]] ; then PATH=$PATH; else PATH=$PATH:$TEMP; fi TEMP=/mnt/silo/Scripts: if [[ … Read more