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Old 12-11-2008
need a cmd to search starting word

example

- shsk
mss-sdsd-asd

i need a command which will search for staring word not others
it should search only -shsk

cat filename | grep '-'
will search whole '-' in the file but i need to search only staring '-'

thank u
revenna
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Old 12-11-2008
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Originally Posted by revenna
example

- shsk
mss-sdsd-asd

i need a command which will search for staring word not others
it should search only -shsk

cat filename | grep '-'
will search whole '-' in the file but i need to search only staring '-'

thank u
revenna
Code:
grep "^-" filename

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