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Re: How to match regex in bash? (any character)
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: How to match regex in bash? (any character) |
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Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:48:34 +0200 |
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Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> writes:
> The problem and confusion here comes from the fact that "\" is
> overloaded and used by two different pieces of software (bash
> and the system regex).
That's nothing new. The backslash is widely used as a quote character
in several languages, which requires two levels of quoting if one of
these languages is embedded in another one.
Andreas.
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