Looking for special characters in Google

Question

Hi...

Do you know how to look for special characters with google...?

I'm looking at bash code and there's the ## operator...I would like to know what It does but I wasn't able to figure out a way to protect the character (i'm not sure it's even possible...)...

This is particularly annoying when you're looking for some code patterns, some characters are always ignored...

Answer 1

If you are searching for code you can use google code search

Answer 2

Google strips most punctuation from queries, as described here, so it won't help you with the bash syntax.

It's very easy to search for the string "##" in the bash documentation: Just run "info bash", hit "s", and enter "##" as the search string.