At 1146586566 past the epoch, David Purton wrote:
> How can I escape a string literal easily for use as a regex with grep?
If you feed it through perl, you can enclose the suspect string with \Q
and \E. Here's an excerpt from a perl script which I generate my
procmail recipes with:
$reexp = $dict{$key};
print ":0\n*^TO\Q$reexp\E\n\$MAILDIR/$key/\n\n";
You could try something like
TMPSUBJECT=`formail -zxSubject:`
SUBJECT=`perl -e 'print "\Q$TMPSUBJECT\E";'`
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