searching for $ character

MizzGail · #1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2006

I need to search in text files for the $ character. I tried putting it in double quotes and single quotes . ie grep "$" filename but unix finds everything in the file.

Whats the best way to do this?

thanks

tmarikle · #2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2006

Try searching for \$

The backslash indicates that the $ is literal an should not be used to expand a variable or as an end of line indicator.

MizzGail · #3 (**permalink**) 01-04-2006

that doesn't work either.
However, I just got it to work in an sql query against an informix table using [$] and it appears this works in the unix command too!

tanks!

akrathi · #4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2006

try this :

grep '\$' filename

Thanks
Ashok

Ygor · #5 (**permalink**) 01-05-2006

Try fgrep or grep -F

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