[Slackbuilds-users] Metacharacters in package names

[B Watson]

On 8/22/18, Ruben Schuller <sb at rbn.im> wrote:
>
> This could be a good solution for the problem in your script:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/16951928

My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!

Using grep instead of egrep would also be a solution to this issue.

grep can do everything (or maybe almost everything?) egrep does, just
needs extra \ in front of some of the metacharacters to make them meta.