From: Jason Grosland <jcg3@cs.duke.edu>
  To  : 
  Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:53:08 -0500

Re: Retreiving Regular Expression from the command line?

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Alexander Leonard Zupancich wrote:

> Any ideas on how we can get the regular expression as a string?

Your shell does nice things with expanding certain characters (namely *
and ?).  You can read about what else it does by doing 'man csh', or your
shell of choice.

Try some of these:
 % echo \*.cc
 % echo '*.cc'
 % echo "*.cc"
 % echo "'foo'"
 % echo o\'clock

-Jason

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