Re: Bug in grep ??

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
        thank you for your mail.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:52:56AM +0300, Gil Meirovich wrote:
> I am trying to grep lines that contain the $ sign. I could only grep two
> consecutive '$'s, by executing:
> grep \$\$ <list of files>
> 
> Is that a bug, or I just could not find the "trick" ?

you are probably not escaping the dollar signs properly.

Assuming that you work on a Unix style environment (eg. linux or cygwin),
this should work:

grep '\$' <list of files>


Detailed explanation:
> grep \$\$ <list of files>

the shell probably eats the backslashes, and grep sees only $$, which
probably means ``dollar at the end of line.''

With '\$', the shell strips only the single quotes, and grep sees \$,
which is what we need.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal