How to print a literal '.' as the first character in a line?

2022-04-30 Thread Alejandro Colomar
I'd like to be able to print a '.' in a document, and it happens to be at the start of a line. I've read there's a way to change the request character from '.' to some other character, but is there any simpler way to do that? Simple (and a bit stupid) example: [ .EX $ echo '.' . .EE ] You g

Re: How to print a literal '.' as the first character in a line?

2022-04-30 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Alejandro, Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 09:01:54PM +0200: > I'd like to be able to print a '.' in a document, and it happens to be > at the start of a line. I've read there's a way to change the request > character from '.' to some other character, Don't do that. > but