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# 1  
Old 02-09-2011
grep ^ as a character
I have a pwd file with a number of errors like: ^[ and [[^[
when I
Code:
grep ^

I get the whole file since it thinks it's new line. Should I \ to escape this?
# 2  
Old 02-09-2011
Yes, you should escape it.

Code:
grep \\^ file
# or
grep "\^" file

otherwise
Code:
fgrep ^ file

# 3  
Old 02-09-2011
TY, but this is strange. If I vi the file I see the ^ in the user record. If I grep it I don't see the ^.
That was why my grep \^ was falling thru.
# 4  
Old 02-09-2011
What do you mean by "errors"? Are these ^[, etc. escape characters?

Can you cat -v file and post part of the output which contains these characters?
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# 5  
Old 02-09-2011
when I cat -v file
I can see the ^ symbol
Code:
bxxxxb:*:xxxx0:Bxxxan W. Bxxxxx^?rf:/usr/ids/bxxxxb:/usr/bin/ksh
exxxxxc:*:xxxxx:Cxxx Exxxxxo^[[C [xxxSR x0]:/usr/ids/exxxxxxc:/usr/bin/ksh
jxxxxxl:*:xxxxxxxxx:^xxxxxle Jxxxxon [AxxxxP x0]:/usr/ids/jxxxxxl:/usr/bin/ksh

errors:
Line 1: ^?
Line 2: ^[
Line 3: ^

So, the ^ symbol is the one constant that I can use to find lines with errors in them.

---------- Post updated at 11:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:14 AM ----------

This worked
Code:
cat -v infile | grep "\^" > tmp2.txt

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