On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Peter A. Cejchan <tyap...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is from manpage, but I not sure what _exactly_ it means, and whether it > applies to your problem: > Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters > $*[^|()=\ and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose > the entire expression in single quotes '...'. An expression > starting with '*' will treat the rest of the expression as > literal characters. >
Everything is enclosed in '' the shell is not seeing this. G.
