On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 11:43:40AM +0100, Colm Buckley wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\[' > > > I'd be inclined to call that a dpkg bug--it's not exactly intuitive > > syntax. > > It's not a dpkg issue, it's a shell issue. '[' is a shell > metacharacter, and must therefore be esacaped when passed in an argument > to *any* program, not just dpkg.
Note that it's escaped *twice* above... -- Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
