Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 20:32:24 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /bin/test broken ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912282028080.54763-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <199912290115.RAA71526@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Things inside single quotes (') are not subject to regex unless the
> shell is broken. From sh(1):
> Single Quotes
> Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the literal mean-
> ing of all the characters (except single quotes, making it impos-
> sible to put single-quotes in a single-quoted string).
Rod,
Had you actually read his original post you would have seen that the [ wasn't
in single quotes in the example he provided. I have no idea what relevence
the above section is.
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