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Old 07-18-2011
Using grep $ sign help?

hi so I was debugging some scripts and I ran into a problem that did not come up before

Code:
grep -n "$variable"$ ./file.txt

I figured the second $ is meant to reference the end of the line but this gave me trouble in my c shell. anyone know whats wrong here or how to rewrite this???

Thank you!
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Old 07-18-2011
Try:
Code:
grep -n "$variable"'$' ./file.txt

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Old 07-18-2011
thanks! that was really simple wow
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