RE: cygcheck and literal plus sign

["Gates, Roger" <rlgates@triumphgroup.com>]

On Friday, January 24, 2014 9:26 PM Steven Penny wrote
>On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:05 AM, David Boyce wrote
>> How about 'g[+][+]' or 'g[+]{2}'?
>
>Please, no more lazy answers
>
>    $ cygcheck -p 'g[+][+].exe'
>    Found 0 matches for g[ ][ ].exe

$ ascii +
ASCII 2/11 is decimal 043, hex 2b, octal 053, bits 00101011: prints as `+'
Official name: Plus Sign
Other names: Add, Cross

$ cygcheck -p 'g\x{2b}\x{2b}.exe'
Found 11 matches for g\x{2b}\x{2b}.exe
x86/cygwin64-gcc-g++/cygwin64-gcc-g++-4.8.2-1
x86/cygwin64-gcc-g++/cygwin64-gcc-g++-4.8.2-2
x86/gcc-g++/gcc-g++-4.8.2-1
x86/gcc-g++/gcc-g++-4.8.2-2
x86/gcc4-g++/gcc4-g++-4.7.3-2
x86/mingw-gcc-g++/mingw-gcc-g++-4.5.2-1
x86/mingw-gcc-g++/mingw-gcc-g++-4.7.3-1
x86/mingw64-i686-gcc-g++/mingw64-i686-gcc-g++-4.8.2-1
x86/mingw64-i686-gcc-g++/mingw64-i686-gcc-g++-4.8.2-2
x86/mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++/mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++-4.8.2-1
x86/mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++/mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++-4.8.2-2
$

Roger L. Gates

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