[Remind-Fans] remind -z <( echo REM AT ... MSG 'hi \[#' ) #

[Dianne Skoll]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 10:39:23 -0600
remind-fans at trodman.com wrote:

>     $ remind -z <( echo REM AT $(date --date "now +1 min" '+%H:%M') MSG 'hi \[#' )
> /dev/fd/63(2): Illegal character `#'

You can't escape a [.  The *only* way to get a literal [ in a reminder is
as follows:

REM MSG ##["["]##balancer

That's kind of ugly, so you could do:

SET b "##[##balancer"

REM MSG [b]

Regards,

Dianne.