>>>> [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...
One of the escapes is to get it past the shell metacharacter expansion,
the second is to tell dpkg that it's not a metacharacter - from 'man
dpkg':
dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ...
Search for a filename from installed packages. All
standard shell wildchars can be used in the pattern.
Being able to use a pattern here, as opposed to a fixed string, is a
powerful feature of dpkg, and not one I'd like to see removed to cope
with the (possibly unique) case of /usr/bin/[ - "optimize for the common
case" and all that.
I thought you were referring to the required escape for the shell.
Colm
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