On Nov 09 2019, L A Walsh wrote: > On 2019/11/09 04:49, Robert Elz wrote: >> There's also >> >> The special characters '.', '*', '[', and '\\' >> (<period>, <asterisk>, <left-square-bracket>, and <backslash>, >> respectively) shall lose their special meaning within a bracket >> expression. >> > ---- > Is this really what the standard says, because '\\' is not a character, but > 2 characters. They could use "\\" but if a backslash is between single > quotes, it loses its special meaning.
This is C notation, not shell notation. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
