Trying to describe regular expressions for use with the archive
server, I just realized that arch_retrieve passes the regular
expression unquoted to egrep. This means that regular
expressions may not contain whitespace or shell meta characters.
Is this intentional, or just a flaw?
Hans-Albert
PS: Shell meta characters seem not to hurt ([], (), and | work
fine). How comes? Does flist unset IFS?
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