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Old 01-04-2006
searching for $ character
I need to search in text files for the $ character. I tried putting it in double quotes and single quotes . ie grep "$" filename but unix finds everything in the file.

Whats the best way to do this?

thanks
# 2  
Old 01-04-2006
Try searching for \$

The backslash indicates that the $ is literal an should not be used to expand a variable or as an end of line indicator.
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Old 01-04-2006
Smilie that doesn't work either.
However, I just got it to work in an sql query against an informix table using [$] and it appears this works in the unix command too!

tanks!
# 4  
Old 01-05-2006
try this :

grep '\$' filename

Thanks
Ashok
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Old 01-05-2006
Try fgrep or grep -F
 
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