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Old 12-11-2011
Matching the [] characters
I want to check where our programmers are using "delete" instead of "delete[]" in their C++ code:
Code:
grep -r delete *cpp | grep -v []

However, this statement and variations thereof (escaping with backslash (\), single quotes ('), double quotes ("), accolades ({)) always lead to the following message:
Code:
grep: Unmatched [ or [^

What should the correct statement be?
# 2  
Old 12-11-2011
Hi.

Try:

Code:
grep -v '\[]'
grep -Fv []
fgrep -v []

# 3  
Old 12-11-2011
Works great. I will settle for the first option. Thank you.
 
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