From ae7f1d16601d654f5eb2c924def2a8ef8822763d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rupa <rupa@lrrr.us>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:48:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] another fix to the stupid regex escaping.

This one works in gawk as well as mawk, and let's hope it works in the
other bazillion flavors of awk as well. :/
---
 z.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/z.sh b/z.sh
index 848e408..48c4ed6 100755
--- a/z.sh
+++ b/z.sh
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ _z() {
     if( short == "/" ) return
 
     # escape regex chars in right hand side
-    gsub(/[\(\)\[\]\|]/, "\\\&", short)
+    gsub(/[\(\)\[\]\|]/, "\\\\&", short)
 
     # shortest match must be common to each match
     for( i in matches ) if( matches[i] && i !~ short ) return