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Re: How much of it is zsh?

On 24 March 2010 11:43, zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So cygwin provides egrep now some of things grep can do are superceded by for
> instance zsh's **/*.php recursion Âbut presumably I could still use egrep's -
> R. Am I right in thinking egrep knows nothing about the fact that its shell
> is Âzsh.?!
>
> Where are the boundaries between a shell and the tools

Just surround respective arguments with apostrophes ''. That will
prevent shell from doing any expansion on them.

Regards,
Piotr Kalinowski
-- 
Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes
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