I've always found it annoying that the DBI Shell does not allow the
user to escape the command prefix, so I spent a couple minutes looking
at Shell.pm, and came up with the following diff. Please consider
this for any upcoming updates to DBI. Thank you.
*** Shell.pm~ Mon Jun 4 12:13:42 2001
--- Shell.pm Sun Apr 14 18:27:14 2002
***************
*** 352,358 ****
$current_line = "${prefix}quit" unless defined $current_line;
if ( $current_line =~ /
! ^(.*?)
$prefix
(?:(\w*)([^\|>]*))?
((?:\||>>?).+)?
--- 352,358 ----
$current_line = "${prefix}quit" unless defined $current_line;
if ( $current_line =~ /
! (^|^.*?[^\\])
$prefix
(?:(\w*)([^\|>]*))?
((?:\||>>?).+)?
