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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:07:21 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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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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