From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 15:55:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YCQ6+jiMs-Lk+f3TkH7447D21DiR+ZRRYbfZENod=L+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33cad64c-296c-4b70-b606-7a094b0a5a14@app.fastmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 3:46 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, at 4:53 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> > Right, I know that, my code sample was too lazy. The only issue is
> > with the egrep.
>
> The solution is to stop using egrep.
Consider perhaps fgrep which looks for literal strings rather than patterns.
> "Preserving" the quotes, as you considered in your first message,
> would in fact break the command.
Obviously what needed to be preserved was the backslash.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-02 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-02 16:33 Ray Andrews
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 [this message]
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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