[rancid] Re: plus in the prompt?

[Ed Ravin]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:57:18AM -0700, David Luyer wrote:
> If you really need such characters in your prompt, this:
> 
> >         # escape any parens in the prompt, such as "(enable)"
> >         regsub -all {[)(]} $prompt {\\&} reprompt
> 
> could be changed to something more like:
> 
>          # escape all regexp magic characters in the prompt
>          regsub -all {[+*.|(){}[\]]} $prompt {\\&} reprompt

Thank you, that works.  It's the customer's router and it didn't
seem right to say "I need to change your router hostname, because,
well, ummm..."