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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers make script treat * as a regular character Post 302252045 by joeyg on Tuesday 28th of October 2008 04:47:19 PM
Old 10-28-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver here is one approach

Code:
> cat file15
the end is here
and * and more ** are present
i wonder * if * there* more **
than *
** I can count
> tr "*" "~" <file15 | tr "\n" " " | tr "~" "\n" | wc -l
11

Note:
The tr command, sometimes in conjunction with sed and cut, can do so many cool things to translate one character to another. Read the manpages on it to undertand it better.
 

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Tcl_AllowExceptions(3)					      Tcl Library Procedures					    Tcl_AllowExceptions(3)

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NAME
Tcl_AllowExceptions - allow all exceptions in next script evaluation SYNOPSIS
#include <tcl.h> Tcl_AllowExceptions(interp) ARGUMENTS
Tcl_Interp *interp (in) Interpreter in which script will be evaluated. _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
If a script is evaluated at top-level (i.e. no other scripts are pending evaluation when the script is invoked), and if the script termi- nates with a completion code other than TCL_OK, TCL_ERROR or TCL_RETURN, then Tcl normally converts this into a TCL_ERROR return with an appropriate message. The particular script evaluation procedures of Tcl that act in the manner are Tcl_EvalObjEx, Tcl_EvalObjv, Tcl_Eval, Tcl_EvalEx, Tcl_GlobalEval, Tcl_GlobalEvalObj, Tcl_VarEval and Tcl_VarEvalVA. However, if Tcl_AllowExceptions is invoked immediately before calling one of those a procedures, then arbitrary completion codes are per- mitted from the script, and they are returned without modification. This is useful in cases where the caller can deal with exceptions such as TCL_BREAK or TCL_CONTINUE in a meaningful way. KEYWORDS
continue, break, exception, interpreter Tcl 7.4 Tcl_AllowExceptions(3)
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