Grep question.

saurabhsinha23 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007

Hi,

I am executing the below command.

grep ".UPDATE" file1.txt | grep -v MQQUEUE > Myprog1

The expected output is all lines in file1.txt which have the string ".UPDATE" and dont contain the string MQQUEUE.

However, the output which I am getting is just searching for the string "UPDATE" instead of ".UPDATE".

Please advise where I am going wrong.

TIA.
Saurabh

Smiling Dragon · #2 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007

'.' means the same thing as 'any one character' in a regular expression. Escape the '.' by either putting a \ in front of it or using single quotes instead of double quotes.

saurabhsinha23 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007

Thanks for your response. It worked.

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