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Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:03:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign
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> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 06:34:49AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> > $ cygcheck -p 'g\+\+.exe'
> >> > Found 0 matches for g\ \ .exe
> >> >
> >> >How can I include a literal '+' (plus character) in my search?
> >>
> >> By remembering that this is a regex search. How do you quote special characters
> >> in regexes? Answer: With a '\'.
> >
> >That's what he did. The single quotes protected the \'s from
> >interpretation by the shell, so cygcheck received the regex: g\+\+.exe
(which should have been g\+\+\.exe)
> Sorry. I screwed up there by not reading carefully.
>
> So I'll change my answer to "I don't know".
A time-honored answer :)
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