Re: Using grep to find a string containing stars

From: Stephane Chazelas (stephane_chazelas_at_yahoo.fr)
Date: 11/25/05

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    On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:00:15 +0100, Matthieu Gaillet wrote:
    [...]
    > I encounter some difficulties finding the string "***" using the command
    > grep under Sun's Unix Interactive (pure vintage)
    >
    > it seems that the star is acting as a wildcard...
    >
    > example : the command grep "***" file.txt reports ALL the lines of the file.
    [...]

    Use the "-F" flag for grep to do fixed string searches only:

    grep -F '***' < file.txt

    Or build a regexp that matches 3 stars:

    grep '\*\*\*' < file.txt

    or

    grep '[*][*][*]' < file.txt

    or

    grep -E '\*{3}' < file.txt 

    -- 
Stephane
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