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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to handle backslash in grep string Post 302121886 by rajbal on Monday 18th of June 2007 06:40:37 PM
Old 06-18-2007
How to handle backslash in grep string
Hi ,
I am doing invert grep using -v but the string contain "/" which break the grep command and it do not skip the lines with "/" on it.
Diffu.txt
========
1159c1159
< <td align="right" valign="middle" class="paddingRight2px" id="featureListItemChannelButton7466">
---
> <td align="right" valign="middle" class="paddingRight2px" id="featureListItemChannelButton2505">
1168,1169c1168,1169
< document.getElementById( 'featureListItemChannelButton7466').innerHTML = '<img src="/images/buttons/playsm_disabled.gif" alt="Subscriber Only Channel" title="Subscriber Only Channel" class="playSm" border="0" height="20" width="20" \/><br \/><br class="v5" \/>';
< Element.addClassName( 'featureListItemChannelButton7466', 'contentUnAvail' );


DiffSkiplines.txt
===========
<td align="right" valign="middle" class="paddingRight2px" id="featureListItemChannelButton7466">
document.getElementById( 'featureListItemChannelButton7466').innerHTML = '<img src="/images/buttons/playsm_disabled.gif" alt="Subscriber Only Channel" title="Subscriber Only Channel" class="playSm" border="0" height="20" width="20" \/><br \/><br class="v5" \/>';
Element.addClassName( 'featureListItemChannelButton7466', 'contentUnAvail' );


cat /home/zabbix/public_html/diffu.txt| grep -v -f /home/zabbix/public_html/DiffSkipLines.txt returns

1159c1159
---
> <td align="right" valign="middle" class="paddingRight2px" id="featureListItemChannelButton2505">
1168,1169c1168,1169
< document.getElementById( 'featureListItemChannelButton7466').innerHTML = '<img src="/images/buttons/playsm_disabled.gif" alt="Subscriber Only Channel" title="Subscriber Only Channel" class="playSm" border="0" height="20" width="20" \/><br \/><br class="v5" \/>';

but it do not removes the line with document.getElement string as it has a backslash character before "/>".
Please let me know how to get rid of lines with backslash in it??


Regards,
Raj
 

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zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

																	  ZGREP(1)
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