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Old 09-04-2015
Hello Jamie,

Following may help you. Let's say we have following input file.
Code:
cat test121
TEST1211
TEST
RTEST

Now example of ^.
Code:
awk '/^R/' test121
RTEST

Means it will show all text lines which are starting with letter R as above.

Example for ~.
Code:
awk '($0 ~ /TEST/)' test121
TEST1211
TEST
RTEST

Means if any line contains string TEST but it may contain any other additional values to which is match but not exact match as above.

For an exact match we can do following.
Code:
awk '($0 == "TEST")' test121
TEST

Thanks,
R. Singh
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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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