Escaping of parentheses/brackets/braces in shell regular expression literals does not work

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    • Resolution: Won't Fix
    • Priority: Minor - P4
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      > db.foo.find({name: /\\/}).count();
0  // great, no records contain backslash
> db.foo.find({name: /\(/}).count();
... }
SyntaxError: Unexpected token }

      Same for [ and {{{}}*

      • That was an attempt to highlight {. I hate Jira's weird syntax when everyone else uses Markdown.

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              DO NOT USE - Backlog - Platform Team
              Reporter:
              Dan Dascalescu
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