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