On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:06:40PM -0400, jared r r spiegel wrote:
>
> the /closest/ thing i'm aware of wrt the '@' being interpreted as
> a regex by ksh would be in filename patterns - but even then, it only
> indicates that the stuff following in the ERE-like '(a|b|c)'
> construct should be matched by a literal exact 'a' or 'b' or 'c',
> it's not doing regular expression magics.

i suck; it's not 'literal exact', it'd be subject to regular
shell globbing like any other 'pattern'.

> i'd venture to say that '@' is the most frequently unnecessarily
> escaped character in ascii(7).

man...

if i escaped the '@' there, i might've had a friggin' quote.

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jared

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