[clug] Circumflex

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 04:04:44 UTC 2017


Hi Brian,  

Actually, programmers don't tend to say circumflex.  I usually use caret but there are other names.  This: ê or this: sûr is a circumflex.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/ascii-pronunciation-rules-for-programmers/

http://ascii-table.com/pronunciation-guide.php

Kim


> On 2017/Aug/17, at 9:09 PM, Kim Holburn via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh, apparently man -k does regex
> 
> Here are some basics of regex pattern matching:
> 
> http://webagility.com/posts/the-basics-of-regex-explained 
> 
> It's a very powerful system of pattern matching that has a high learning curve.
> 
>> On 2017/Aug/17, at 7:00 PM, Kim Holburn via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> 
>> That would be a glob or a regex.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2017/Aug/17, at 6:25 PM, Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I was reading about manual section numbers. Then I came across '^'. Where is it explained?
>>> 
>>> {
>>> You can tell what sections a term falls in with man -k (equivalent to the apropos command). It will do substring matches too (e.g. it will show sprintf if you run man -k printf), so you need to use ^term to limit it:
>>> }
>>> 
>>> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3586/what-do-the-numbers-in-a-man-page-mean#3587
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