RE: Grep Help

Try using single quotes  

grep '\$Log:.*\$' f  

Cheers,  

Ian  

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Ethan Post Sent: 12 April 2006 20:57
To: Oracle Discussion List
Subject: Grep Help  

> cat f

$Log: Blah

> grep "\$Log: .*\$" f

$Log: Blah

I am actually looking for a line which has Dollar Log Colon ...any characters...dollar...any characters...but this still returns the line, even thought it is missing the last dollar. I am sure this is a pretty obvious one, please help.  

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