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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting grep lines having special characters Post 302681033 by rbalaj16 on Thursday 2nd of August 2012 03:29:35 PM
Old 08-02-2012
Thanks guys for reply.

Now i also need to grep a string which has special characters. when i use normal grep it is not working. Please suggest.

say my file looks like,

/u/anaraya8/F200.354/file




$ more file
NULL
!@#$%^&*()+?,
$ echo $VAL
!@#$%^&*()+?,
$ grep "$VAL" file

$

I am assiging the sting to a variable and try to grep it. it is not returning. Please suggest.
 

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