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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete files except the file names available in the Except File Post 302968646 by jgt on Saturday 12th of March 2016 08:58:23 AM
Old 03-12-2016
You should use caution with the grep command. You may not get exactly the results you expect.
Code:
jack@veritron ~ $ cat t3
abc.txt
1abc.txt
abc.txt1
jack@veritron ~ $ grep abc.txt t3
abc.txt
1abc.txt
abc.txt1
jack@veritron ~ $ grep ^abc.txt$ t3
abc.txt
jack@veritron ~ $

 

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