This is because the dot is interpreted instead of being taken as litteral
To ensur the dot is taken as litteral, you must escape it by adding a backslash before it (or more if one is not sufficient)
give a try to this :
If you are trying to match a literal string, save yourself the hassle of escaping metacharacters and don't use regular expressions at all. See grep's -F option.
Thanks all,
I'm finding it difficult to escape the "." as I'm assigning the IP address to a variable. I guess it is possible to cut up the IP address and do it that way...
I did try the -F parameter, and got some interesting results. In the example above, it worked correctly , and only returned the desired IP address, but on others in the list, I got results where multiple lines were returned, but those were typically when I have .2 and a .22 or something along those lines, where the found string is correct, but part of a larger string, that i don't want.
What I found interesting is that out of close to 7000 IP addresses, only the example above was parsed incorrectly.
Your data as posted has a leading space character before the IP Address and at least one trailing space character after the IP Address.
You could include the space characters in the string.
I did try the -F parameter, and got some interesting results. In the example above, it worked correctly , and only returned the desired IP address, but on others in the list, I got results where multiple lines were returned, but those were typically when I have .2 and a .22 or something along those lines, where the found string is correct, but part of a larger string, that i don't want.
See also the -x option.
I'm sure we could give you much better advice in less time than its taken so far if we had a better description of the bigger picture, what you're trying to accomplish, along with the code to your entire script and the environment in which it runs. For all we know, you may not even be using the best tool for the job.
Hello, :)
I've an issue with the creation of a directory, All work without it :mad: So, below, my scripts with the debug output :
#!/bin/bash
# PATHS
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TARGET="/var/www"
# DATE
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D02:-/home/user1/temp>
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for example subjob, endjob, joblist etc...
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totally pis*ed off.
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Hi Friends,
Can any of you explain me about the below line of code?
mn_code=`env|grep "..mn"|awk -F"=" '{print $2}'`
Im not able to understand, what exactly it is doing :confused:
Any help would be useful for me.
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if i press "^c" come out from it...
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/Richard
++
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I'm using the case statement in the following script and it always takes the "*" default choice while it should be "3".
I wonder why ???
dt_auj=`date +%d`
NBLOG=`ls -al /users/notes01/LOG/t*|awk '{print $7}'|grep $dt_auj|wc -l`
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