Re: Potato orphans
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 11:43:40AM +0100, Colm Buckley wrote:
> >> joey@kite:~>dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\['
>
> > I'd be inclined to call that a dpkg bug--it's not exactly intuitive
> > syntax.
>
> It's not a dpkg issue, it's a shell issue. '[' is a shell
> metacharacter, and must therefore be esacaped when passed in an argument
> to *any* program, not just dpkg.
Note that it's escaped *twice* above...
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Mike Stone
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