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Subject: Re: Linux Shell Scripting
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com>
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Richard Kettlewell decreed, Read These Runes!:
> William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> writes:
>> Rinaldi J. Montessi <rinaldi@notaserver.com> wrote:
>>> True, yet apropos \@ returns:
>>
>> Why would you lookup \@ when it is clearly an argument to zip.=20
>> Why not do apropos \-? or apropos z?
>=20
> What=E2=80=99s with all the redundant backslashes in this thread?

In my case it's because I didn't know that @ would be properly
interpreted without being escaped.

--=20
Every program has two purposes -- one for which it was written and
another for which it wasn't.