> > $ cygcheck -p 'g\+\+.exe' > > Found 0 matches for g\ \ .exe > > > >How can I include a literal '+' (plus character) in my search? > > By remembering that this is a regex search. How do you quote special > characters > in regexes? Answer: With a '\'.
That's what he did. The single quotes protected the \'s from interpretation by the shell, so cygcheck received the regex: g\+\+.exe -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple