Bugtraq: Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd

[dave () wanda phl pond com (David B. Vanderpool)]

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.


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>  Yiorgos Adamopoulos        adamo () noc ntua gr
>  National Technical University of Athens, NOC
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