Grep Help

  • From: "Ethan Post" <post.ethan@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Oracle Discussion List" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:56:57 -0500

> cat f

$Log: Blah

> grep "\$Log: .*\$" f

$Log: Blah

I am actually looking for a line which has Dollar Log Colon ...any
characters...dollar...any characters...but this still returns the line, even
thought it is missing the last dollar. I am sure this is a pretty obvious
one, please help.

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