Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 22/01/2014 06:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:59:16PM -0600, Steven Penny wrote:
> > Searching for the popular compiler produces unexpected results
> >
> >     $ cygcheck -p 'g++.exe'
> >     Found 0 matches for g  .exe
> >
> >     $ 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 '\'.

I am surely dumb, but whatever and how many '\' are used
the '+' is always returned as a ' ' in the reply.

So the specific example will be appreciated,
as a single quoting usually works in regexes

 $ cd /etc/setup
 $ zcat gcc-g++.lst.gz |grep -P "g\+\+"
usr/bin/g++.exe
usr/bin/i686-pc-cygwin-g++.exe
usr/share/man/man1/g++.1.gz

Is something "sanitizing" the query on server side to avoid
nasty surprise ?

 $ zcat gcc-g++.lst.gz |grep  -P "g++" |wc -l
723


Marco



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