[Xapian-discuss] Omega and Wildcards

[James Aylett]

[Please keep discussions on list.]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:58PM -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> > You may be being tripped up by your shell escaping there. Try
> > P='finan*' instead of what you have.
> 
> That's what the escape char is for (bash).  Quotes do not help either,
> however, 'finan*' finds 295, where 'finan\*' finds 0.  Does not work
> using the web query either.  Strange results.

I didn't know which shell you were using; in general I prefer single
quotes for avoiding shell globbing (but I can't explain why).

Richard has pointed out where your problem is, which I missed.

J

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