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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epa.gov>
Subject: Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:03:03 -0500
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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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