[GNC] Upgrading GC under Ubuntu

[Colin Law]

On 3 July 2018 at 02:06, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> On 07/02/2018 01:42 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 2 July 2018 at 21:06, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
>> <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     ...
>>     At times I've found I have to escape the * or the shell will
>>     immediately
>>     expand it.  Other times it seems to pass through OK.  I don't know
>>     why.
>>
>>
>> Do you mean something like
>> REGEX ".\\*/apps.*" EXCLUDE
>>
>> That seems to stop the regex from matching anything, so nothing is
>> excluded.
>>
>> Colin
>>
> I don't use REGEX but in other uses I've had ".\*/apps.\*" -- but no
> guarantees.

It seems that a single \ is not valid in a regex, it causes a syntax error.

Colin