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Old 11th December 2008
taylor_venable taylor_venable is offline
Real Name: Taylor Venable
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Awesome! That was exactly what I was looking for, thanks much!

Yes, the ^V trick is pretty useful; it comes from vi so you can use it there also to insert a character literally; especially nice when typing e.g. sed patterns with tabs and newlines in them.
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