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grep/matching help with long listing of directories
How do I get this to work? Code:
cat somefile | grep "-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 287 Sep 10 15:12 shells~" This is the the desired output Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 287 Sep 10 15:12 shells~ I basically want an exact match of the line I am grepping for, the special characters and spaces are giving me errors. Or is there another method I could use? |
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 Remember, whenever you write 'cat filename | command' you can almost almost always rewrite this in a simpler way as 'command < filename'.I'm guessing(since you didn't say) that it's complaining about bad parameters. It thinks your string is a switch since it starts with -. If you want to tell grep that the following option is a parameter and not a switch, you can add -- before it. Code:
grep -- "-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 287 Sep 10 15:12 shells~" < filename Last edited by Corona688; 10-02-2009 at 02:08 PM.. |
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Thanks Corona688 , I missed the leading hyphen. Now if the OP had posted the error message ... This should be faster without the inward redirect. Code:
grep -- "-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 287 Sep 10 15:12 shells~" filename |
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thanks guys!
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