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"Quoted strings always work for me (symbols are still stripped..." That is the definition of not working. The point of the quotes is to allow searching for li
by rsync 11y ago
"Quoted strings always work for me (symbols are still stripped..."
That is the definition of not working. The point of the quotes is to allow searching for literal strings.
You have elucidated the entire problem. Unless, of course, you're just searching for movie star names, in which case the rubbery nature of the search results really doesn't matter.
It appears that -negative searching does work, which is amazing - that's nice to know. But it immediately reminds me of a terrible, glaring problem: searching for command line switches. You cannot effectively search for things like:
rsync --ignore-existing
... since they are interpreted as -negative keywords, even if you quote them.
- 05 11y agosure you can - just use "rsync ignore-existing" . Might be slightly inconvenient, but people who use command line switches should generally be able to figure this stuff out?
- m4x 11y agoUse quotes and search for rsync "--ignore-existing" or "rsync --ignore-existing". They are two different searches but both work fine and return useful results. You can also remove the double dash and search for rsync ignore-existing I appreciate the point of the posted article, but for the most part I don't actually have any trouble using Google as a programmer. You just need to format your searches correctly.