From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject:	RE: [alain AT qnx DOT com: GNU_grep-2.5b_beta]
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:31:09 +0100
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> hmm, I probably confuse you even more ... see it this way
> if you were looking for Unix file system as oppose to DOS file system
> you would have test for this:
> 	if test -d "./."; then
> 	# Unix file
No, I understood what the test tried to do - I just mistakenly thought
that the double quotes did not protect the backslash (so ".\." would be
seen as '<dot> <escaped dot>'). Turns out the double quotes DO protect
the backslash. I should really learn to think/test before I type :-)

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