Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why fgrep?
Message-ID: <728@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 18:28:06 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>You need that \ to tell the shell that more is coming (csh, anyway).

But not "sh"; it allows un-escaped backslashes in strings.