Re: Escaping grep

bodiccea <[email protected]> Sat, 17 Apr 2021 19:21:27 +0200

Newsgroups	alt.comp.lang.shell.unix.bourne-bash
Organization	Guest of ProXad - France
Message-ID	<20210417192127.062f589f@lorien>

On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 11:08:36 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > # with quotes
> > br@lorien:~/.claws-mail$ printf "%s\n" "^\\\\usep"
> > ^\\usep                          <-- passed to grep, correct
> > 
> > # with double quotes
> > br@lorien:~/.claws-mail$ printf "%s\n" '^\\usep'
> > ^\\usep                          <-- passed to grep, correct  
> 
> That's a really good idea. Thanks for the pro-tip. (But I think
> that your last comment has a typo.)

indeed, the 2 comments are messed up :*)

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