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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting metacharacters separation Post 302488161 by ozum on Saturday 15th of January 2011 01:46:23 PM
Old 01-15-2011
metacharacters separation

I have prepared a script to submit a string in a txt file.
However there are somethings that I have to check before submitting the string in the txt file.
One of those checks is to determine whether the string entered contains any metacharacters.
I have tried sth like;
Code:
echo "string" | grep -v [a-zA-Z0-9]
echo "string" | egrep -v .|,|!

however it doesn't work.
How can i check whether the string entered includes any metacharacters or not?

Last edited by Franklin52; 01-17-2011 at 04:23 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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