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From: chneukirchen@gmail.com (Christian Neukirchen)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:38:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh19imme.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13C2C21D-C263-4171-8653-5A0D8686D00F@cs.uwlax.edu> (Milo Velimirovic's message of "Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:21:53 -0500")

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Milo Velimirovic <milov at cs.uwlax.edu> writes:

>> On Jul 9, 2016, at 12:03 PM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Dave Horsfall scripsit:
>> 
>>> I still remember when the pipe command was "^" (pointy hat).
>> 
>> Thus forcing the rest of us to quote grep patterns like '^foo$' forever.
>
> It’s the $ that forces the quoting.

Not in POSIX-compatible sh (works in tcsh even):

$ echo see$
see$

(Neither does ^ need quoting there.)

-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen at gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org


  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-10 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-08 14:52 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Clem Cole
2016-07-08 14:59 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 15:47 ` Nemo
2016-07-08 16:31   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 20:29   ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 16:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 18:00 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-08 18:23 ` Random832
2016-07-08 20:49   ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 21:09     ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-08 21:16       ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 21:45         ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03   ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21     ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-10 14:38       ` Christian Neukirchen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-10  0:52 [TUHS] Slashes Doug McIlroy
2016-07-10  1:51 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 12:09   ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 12:34     ` John Cowan
2016-07-14 14:48       ` Christian Neukirchen
2016-07-09 13:22 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-09 15:59 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11  6:44   ` Peter Jeremy
2016-07-10 14:11 ` Nemo
2016-07-10 20:23 ` pete
2016-07-08 11:25 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 18:26 ` [TUHS] Slashes Adam Sampson

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