> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 06:34:49AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> > $ 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
(which should have been g\+\+\.exe) > Sorry. I screwed up there by not reading carefully. > > So I'll change my answer to "I don't know". A time-honored answer :) -- 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
