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Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:07:21 -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
Sorry. I screwed up there by not reading carefully.
So I'll change my answer to "I don't know".
cgf
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