[2554] in bugtraq
Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David B. Vanderpool)
Fri May 17 14:11:59 1996
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 13:49:50 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: "David B. Vanderpool" <dave@wanda.phl.pond.com>
X-To: Yiorgos Adamopoulos <Y.Adamopoulos@noc.ntua.gr>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <199605171704.UAA04058@noc.ntua.gr>
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:
> `.' is regexp. The characters that I know that are either regexps or
> wildcards are: `.', `+', `*', `[', `]', `-', `?', `{', `}', `|', `^',
> `(', `)'. egrep(1), sh(1), and perl(1) describe them.
>
> I don't know if `@' is in the above set.
SQL uses the '@' character as an 'at' descriptor. It is used for
expressing where characters would appear in a string. So I guess there's
the possibility that '@' has regexp usage in unix somewhere.
> --
> Yiorgos Adamopoulos adamo@noc.ntua.gr
> National Technical University of Athens, NOC
>
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