Re: Grep Question

From: Scott Purkerson (spurkerson_at_DOIT.NV.GOV)
Date: 03/02/04

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    ...unless you use the single quote as follows:

    grep '82\.44\.' *

    You can use single-quotes to enclose command arguments containing special characters so they won't be interpreted by the command shell.

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    Yes, as the grep man page states, you need to double backslash it so that
    the single backslash and the dot are forced to be passed by the shell to
    the grep.

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    you need \\. , dont you?

    (1)root@sbe15342 581# echo asdf.asdf\\nasdfasdf
    asdf.asdf
    asdfasdf
    (0)root@sbe15342 582# echo asdf.asdf\\nasdfasdf|grep .
    asdf.asdf
    asdfasdf
    (0)root@sbe15342 583# echo asdf.asdf\\nasdfasdf|grep \.
    asdf.asdf
    asdfasdf
    (0)root@sbe15342 584# echo asdf.asdf\\nasdfasdf|grep \\.
    asdf.asdf
    (0)root@sbe15342 585#

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    With regex, a "." means "any character". Use "\." to find literal "."
    characters.

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    Hi *,
           I want to search for a string (82.44.203.222.82681071601925321)
    from
    a file. i have around 150 similar number , so i am using a script to do
    this...my script does not create file even after redirecting...can some
    let
    me know where am i failing.

    i think when i am doing grep it takes .(dot) in the literal meaning.

    TIA
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