This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: FYI: character quoting in Win32
- To: Michael Mauch <michael dot mauch at gmx dot de>
- Subject: Re: FYI: character quoting in Win32
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:26:43 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---Michael Mauch <michael.mauch@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 07:34:14 -0700 (PDT), Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> > In order to put this in the archive and to educate the ignorant as I
> > used to be, the circumflex "^" (SHIFT of 6 on US Keyboard) can be
used
> > to quote any character similar to the backslash "\" in UNIX.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > bash$: grep some_variable \| some_other_variable *.c
> >
> > would translate to
> >
> > DOS$: grep some_variable ^| some_other_variable *.c
>
> Hmm, is this a trick of NT or do you run 4dos or some other
non-standard
> command interpreter?
>
I found this information on the MSDN, I don't remember the page
though. It didn't state that it was particular to NT or 9x.
==
- \\||//
---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o----
--earnie_boyd@yahoo.com--
------ooo0O--O0ooo-------
_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
-
For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to
"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".