From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1719 invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2014 15:07:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1709 invoked by uid 89); 22 Jan 2014 15:07:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:07:25 +0000 Received: from pool-108-49-99-58.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([108.49.99.58] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1W5zOl-000K0K-Kc for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:07:23 +0000 Received: from ednor (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C17360112 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:07:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:07:21 -0500 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19v3kQxxlqQWwjW8295V5hm Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:07:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign Message-ID: <20140122150721.GA6650@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20140122055830.GB4286@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 06:34:49AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> > $ cygcheck -p 'g\+\+.exe' >> > Found 0 matches for g\ \ .exe >> > >> >How can I include a literal '+' (plus character) in my search? >> >> By remembering that this is a regex search. How do you quote special characters >> in regexes? Answer: With a '\'. > >That's what he did. The single quotes protected the \'s from >interpretation by the shell, so cygcheck received the regex: g\+\+.exe Sorry. I screwed up there by not reading carefully. So I'll change my answer to "I don't know". cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple