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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/
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