Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chaze...@yahoo.fr> writes: > The problem and confusion here comes from the fact that "\" is > overloaded and used by two different pieces of software (bash > and the system regex).
That's nothing new. The backslash is widely used as a quote character in several languages, which requires two levels of quoting if one of these languages is embedded in another one. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."