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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">On 8/22/18, Ruben
Schuller <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sb@rbn.im"><sb@rbn.im></a>
wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">This could be a
good solution for the problem in your script:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/16951928">https://stackoverflow.com/a/16951928</a>
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My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
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Using grep instead of egrep would also be a solution to this
issue.
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I confess that I had to look up that meme. I understand that you
wanted to express your dislike on the previous solutions kindly
offered by the previous interlocutor. I don't like it as well. My
preferred solution would be to distract the author of this
application and plug out the '+' key from his/her keyboard. Or else
I can rely on the undocumented and exclusive pkgtool feature to
rename installed packages on the fly using the mv command: mv
/var/log/packages/tolua++ /var/log/packages/toluapp (and prove once
again that Slackware is unbreakable).
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There are many solutions but my intention was not to request
assistance on my script. The script is just a cosmetic addition to
sbopkg anyway. My intention was to solicit your reconsideration on
the inclusion of metacharacters in package names. They are a
nuisance, ugly and they break things. Which characters are
acceptable? Would you also accept white spaces and semi-colons?
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Chris Abela
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