[R] OT UNIX grep question
Rolf Turner
rolf at erdos.math.unb.ca
Thu Aug 10 13:51:36 CEST 2006
francoisromain at free.fr wrote:
> You have to learn about regular expressions. Then you'll come up with
> something like :
>
> grep "^dog$" /usr/share/dict/words
*You* have to learn about shell syntax. The foregoing doesn't
work; it gives an ``Illegal variable name.'' error. To protect
against the shell interpretation of the dollar sign you have
to use *single* quotes.
grep '^dog$' /usr/share/dict/words
*does* work. (Try it!)
cheers,
Rolf Turner
rolf at math.unb.ca
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