cygcheck and literal plus sign

[Andrew Schulman]

> >    $ cygcheck -p 'g\+\+.exe'
> >    Found 0 matches for g\ \ .exe
> >
> >How can I include a literal '+' (plus character) in my search?
> 
> By remembering that this is a regex search.  How do you quote special characters
> in regexes?  Answer: With a '\'.

That's what he did.  The single quotes protected the \'s from
interpretation by the shell, so cygcheck received the regex: g\+\+.exe


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