Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

On 01/28/2017 11:45 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> it did put me on the right track:
>>     $ cygcheck -p 'mingw32-g[:punct:][:punct:]' | awk 'NR>1{$0=$1}1'

> Your command is the same as:
> 
> $ cygcheck -p mingw32-g[:ctnpu][:ctnpu] | sed '2,$s/\s.*//'

Not necessarily.  You forgot quotes, so depending on what is in your
current directory, that glob might expand.

> 
> ITYM:
> 
> $ cygcheck -p mingw32-g[[:punct:]][[:punct:]] | sed '2,$s/\s.*//'

Or, with proper quoting to shield yourself from globbing based on the
contents of the current directory:

cygcheck -p 'mingw32-g[[:punct:]][[:punct:]]' | sed '2,$s/\s.*//'

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