11-05-2009
grep : having trouble with a single quote
Hi,
I search for the string below which contains a single quote,
some text '/home/myuser
in the file myfile.txt as another user with the grep command as follows
su - myuser -c "grep 'some text \'/home/myuser' myfile.txt"
I also tried using two backslashes
su - myuser -c "grep 'some text \\'/home/myuser' myfile.txt"
but to no avail, I still get
Unmatched '.
Does anyone have a solution for this silly problem?
Thanks,
C
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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)