Re: [Omaha.pm] ack '\-\>Promotion'

[Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>]

On Mar 4, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Jay Hannah wrote:

> $ ack '\-\>Promotion'

Actually, you don't need to quote those because they're not regex chars, and the '' keeps them from being interpolated by the shell, so you can just say

ack '->Promotion'

If you DID have regex characters you wanted to escape all of, like

ack '\*\*\*WARNING\*\*\*'

you can use the -Q for quoting the entire string

ack '***WARNING***'

xoxo,
Andy

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