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Re: unable to escape ! in autotest stdout comparison text
From: |
Gavin Smith |
Subject: |
Re: unable to escape ! in autotest stdout comparison text |
Date: |
Thu, 31 May 2018 15:15:02 +0100 |
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:25 AM, John Calcote <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've tried escaping with backslash, I've tried quoting with single quotes,
> I've tried escaping within double quotes. Nothing works. It seems the
> unquoting functionality will not be tricked into allowing a special
> character to be escaped.
>
> Any ideas?
I don't know if it works in your situation but another way of
"escaping" a special character is to assign it to a shell variable,
e.g. do
bang='!'
somewhere and later refer to ${bang}. This may work if variable
expansion takes place at a later stage than when the special
characters in question are processed.