Re: Grep Help
- From: "Egor Starostin" <egorst@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: post.ethan@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:54:38 +0400
> > 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.
Citation from Solaris' man:
***
Be careful using the characters $, *, [, ^, |, (, ), and \
in the pattern_list because they are also meaningful to the
shell. It is safest to enclose the entire pattern_list in
single quotes '... '.
***
So, just use '\$Log: .*\$' to get the right result.
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