[Info-vax] SEARCH ''

[hb]

On 1/18/22 16:52, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> $ search x.com "'" + "'"

SEARCH (or DCL - which seems more likely) uses "+" as a list separator, 
so the above command is the same as
search x.com "'" , "'"
That is, it finds single quotes.

> grep or find or other tools will work here too, when those are installed 
> and available.
> 
> DCL doesn't have an equivalent to the backslash 
> escape-the-next-character syntax present in some other contexts.
> 

Using grep on *nix for this search is straight forward: grep "''" x.com
On VMS it's not that obvious: grep "[']\{2\}" x.com
but there may be an easier way to do that, which I missed.