On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:42:03 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-11-01, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 04:00 pm, Wildman wrote: >> >>> You are correct about that but, in this case grep never "sees" the '$' >>> sign. Bash expands $USER to the actual user name beforehand. If you >>> are on a Linux system, enter this into a terminal to illustrate: >>> >>> sudo grep ^$USER\: /etc/shadow >> >> Bash is not involved here. Python is calling grep directly. > > He's already been told this 6 times, and is willfully ignoring it. > > Just give up.
That was not my intention. I was trying to understand that which I did not understand. Ever been there? -- <Wildman> GNU/Linux user #557453 The cow died so I don't need your bull! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
