From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: FYI: character quoting in Win32 18 Aug 1998 09:42:41 -0700 Message-ID: <19980817143414.4112.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1d.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: gw32 In order to put this in the archive and to educate the ignorant as I used to be, the circumflex "^" (SHIFT of 6 on US Keyboard) can be used to quote any character similar to the backslash "\" in UNIX. Example: bash$: grep some_variable \| some_other_variable *.c would translate to DOS$: grep some_variable ^| some_other_variable *.c == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".