Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 15:08:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu Subject: Re: Crontab and the % character Message-ID: <199509101308.PAA14341@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <95Sep8.154737pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Sep 8, 95 03:47:34 pm
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As Bill Fenner wrote: > > >If I use the %'s by themselves then it interprets them as special control > >characters, but if I put a \ in front of each, the command is interpreted > >literally (i.e. "\%B \%b"). > > This is a bug. Try this patch. It turns "\%" into "%", "\\" into "\", > and leaves "\*" (where * is any character other than % or \) alone. Thanks, commited. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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