[TUHS] Slashes
Christian Neukirchen
chneukirchen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 00:38:49 AEST 2016
Milo Velimirovic <milov at cs.uwlax.edu> writes:
>> On Jul 9, 2016, at 12:03 PM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dave Horsfall scripsit:
>>
>>> I still remember when the pipe command was "^" (pointy hat).
>>
>> Thus forcing the rest of us to quote grep patterns like '^foo$' forever.
>
> It’s the $ that forces the quoting.
Not in POSIX-compatible sh (works in tcsh even):
$ echo see$
see$
(Neither does ^ need quoting there.)
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