From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 09:33:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7318f96a-c6ff-426b-aa64-93b8ea6ee9c1@eastlink.ca> (raw)
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% apt-file search zsh. | egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'
... if using egrep, the above makes sure that the dot is taken
literally. I have a function that ends up trying to create the above:
% func 'zsh\.'
... which will attempt:
apt-file search "$1" | egrep --color=always $1
... and it works fine unless I want to force a literal char, as above.
zsh is removing the quotes as she properly does, but in this case I need
to preserve them since egrep needs them. I know I've done this before.
Something in the (Q) continuum? It has to be egrep since I normally
want the regex interpretation, it's just this odd case where I need a
regex char forced literal. I know it's doable.
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next reply other threads:[~2024-04-02 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-02 16:33 Ray Andrews [this message]
2024-04-02 20:14 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-04-02 20:53 ` Ray Andrews
2024-04-02 22:45 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-04-02 22:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-04-02 23:29 ` Ray Andrews
2024-04-03 8:18 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-04-02 23:26 ` Ray Andrews
2024-04-03 3:42 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-04-03 12:50 ` Ray Andrews
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