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Created April 18, 2019 16:19
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Quote meta characters in a string to be used in a regex.
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quotemeta.sh
#!/bin/bash
# quote meta characters
python -c "import sys,re; [sys.stdout.write(re.escape(line)) for line in sys.stdin]" < <(echo -n "$1")
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