On 04/23/2014 09:07 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> is '!' a metacharacter in regexes? regex(6) doesn't say anything about it. >> > it is not. > > however > >>> #!/bin/rc >>> { >>> echo 'echo $SYSNAME!`uname -n`!$USER' >>> echo 'PS1='':; '' PS2='' ''' >>> } >/dev/$winid/body > this is not valid rc. > > - erik > If it's not too much trouble, would you mind demonstrating what valid rc would be for the part of the script in question.
Thanks.