From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   Sylvain Robitaille  writes:   
      
   > On 2024-10-01, Mike Spencer wrote:   
   >   
   >>     perl -n -e 's/]+)>//;print;'   
   >>   
   >> This fails.  "> figured out why.  This works as expected:   
   >>   
   >>     perl -n -e s/]+)>//;   
   >> ...   
   >> Sorry. It was late and I didn't test my own advice.  Now trying to   
   >> figure out why the first one fails.   
   >   
   > The best that I can tell, is it looks like the shell is grabbing the   
   > "!-" sequence, and apparently leaving behind only the "!".  Try your   
   > first approach, and let it fail, then using command history, review the   
   > command.  Notice that it now says "...  I'm seeing with tcsh.   
      
      
   Yes.  Good catch.  I do most command line stuff in emacs shell where   
   command history comes from emacs, not the shell.  If I do as you   
   suggest in an xterm, just what you say happens!   
      
   >   
   >    : elvira[syl] ~; echo '' |perl -n -e 's/]+)>//;print;'   
   >       
   >   
   > (press the "up" cursor key ...)   
   >   
   >    : elvira[syl] ~; echo '' |perl -n -e 's/]+)>//;print;'   
   >   
   > If instead I escape the "!", it's handled as you intended:   
   >   
   >    : elvira[syl] ~; echo '' | perl -n -e 's/]+)>/<\!--   
   $1-->/;print;'   
   >       
   >   
   > I hope that this helps.   
      
   TYVM.   
      
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   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
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