On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 05:47:01PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I played around with your sequence and confirmed your observation. > Changing the quotes from double to single quotes seems to get > what you are looking for. > > Again that would go along with preserving backslashes during one > round of evaluation. In a double quoted string parsed by the shell, > depending on the following character, a backslash may be escaping the > next character or may be literal. Using single quotes removes the > ambiguity and makes them literal irrespective of the next char.
Hi Jon, thank you for your time. Indeed using single quotes solves the issue. But i couldn't imagine such a simple regex would have lead to this problem. I'll pay extra attention in the future buiding the patterns. Thanks again.
