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Old 02-19-2014
In less, searching with / allows for switching off regex matching:
Quote:
^R Don't interpret regular expression metacharacters; that is, do a simple textual comparison.
# 9  
Old 02-19-2014
Using builtins OSX 10.7.5 default shell.
(Is there anything that builtins cannot do?)
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# special.sh
echo '[1023]="null" [5796]="null" [269]="6" [270]="75000000,-7" [271]="null" [286]="null" [346]="null" [731]="00000011,3" [1023]="null" [5796]="16119" [369]="864495" [779]="0" [911]="552" [1143]="50000000,-7" [1148]="null,-7" [1149]="null,-7" [1682]="17" [Template]="25" [Sequence]="15" [SendingTime]="1392811367708000000" [BlockLength]="59" [Version]="0" [Reserved]="0" [MsgSize]="268" [GroupBlockLength]="Tag (268) BlockLength <22>"' > /tmp/special.txt
read -d '' -r text < /tmp/special.txt
echo "$text"
echo ""
# Start of working part...
array=($text)
for n in $( seq 0 1 ${#array[@]} )
do
	if [ "${array[$n]}" == '[1682]="17"' ]
	then
		newtext=$(echo "${array[$n]}")
		echo "$newtext"
		echo ""
	fi
done
# End of working part...
exit 0

Results:-
Code:
Last login: Wed Feb 19 22:05:38 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> ./special.sh
[1023]="null" [5796]="null" [269]="6" [270]="75000000,-7" [271]="null" [286]="null" [346]="null" [731]="00000011,3" [1023]="null" [5796]="16119" [369]="864495" [779]="0" [911]="552" [1143]="50000000,-7" [1148]="null,-7" [1149]="null,-7" [1682]="17" [Template]="25" [Sequence]="15" [SendingTime]="1392811367708000000" [BlockLength]="59" [Version]="0" [Reserved]="0" [MsgSize]="268" [GroupBlockLength]="Tag (268) BlockLength <22>"

[1682]="17"

AMIGA:barrywalker~> _

 
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