> a) ls -a 2>/dev/null | f?grep ^%s
Of course, it's better to use `grep ^%s' than `fgrep %s' since it solves
both the leading dash and the substring issue, but then you have to
carefully requote your string.
Maybe something like:
(format "%s -a 2>/dev/null | grep ^%s"
(tramp-get-ls-command multi-method method user host)
(tramp-shell-quote-argument
(replace-regexp-in-string "[[*$^.\\]" "\\\\\\&" filename)))
I believe that . \ ^ $ [ and * are the only special chars in grep.
It's important not to quote too much here, since GNU grep gives special
meaning to \{ \+ \? \w \< ...
As for the `find .' case my earlier example forgot to requote the \ itself.
Stefan
