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1. spool

   What's wrong with this expression??? grep -r -P '(?=Event::handle)\(\'.*?\'' . | less

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   1. spool

      @ponydude My command line keeps saying quote> but I escaped the quotes that are part of the regex :/

      about a year ago from web
      1. toksyuryel

         @ponydude Are they in a context where they need to be double-escaped?

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         1. spool

            @toksyuryel The context that's failing is my shell, so I don't think so.

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         2. spool

            @toksyuryel I think I figured it out. You can't escape single quotes inside single quotes for some reason.

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            1. toksyuryel

               @ponydude That makes sense. Try double quoting the whole string, in that case, so you can use single quotes inside of it.

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               1. spool

                  @toksyuryel Working on that now. The major problem with that is that it doesn't shield the string from being interpreted by the shell. x|

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                  1. toksyuryel

                     @ponydude What about single quoting the string and using double quotes inside the string?

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                     1. spool

                        @toksyuryel But then it wouldn't match the contents of the file. The file contains single quotes.

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                        1. toksyuryel

                           @ponydude Ah. Hm.

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                        2. minti

                           @ponydude Trying to find all plugin hook locations? ;p

                           about a year ago from web
                           1. spool

                              @minti Yeah. It's not going over too well.

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                           2. spool

                              @minti I was using a much simpler regex, but I'm trying to narrow the output down to make it easier to look at.

                              about a year ago from web