Thanks to all who replied, gmail was slow that day and I eventually stumbled across. grep "\$Log: .*[\$]" Which works with the "" although there is no reason I could not use "\". Thanks, Ethan On 4/12/06, Ethan Post <post.ethan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > cat f > > $Log: Blah > > > grep "\$Log: .*\$" f > > $Log: Blah > >