[wplug] shell trick?

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Sun May 28 11:54:56 EDT 2006


Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:

> i am trying to grep a very large file (50MB) for hostnames containing
> ".at" (Austria),
> i tried "grep ".at" *" and it is giving references for "at" but i
> don't want the word at i just want ".at", anyone know a way to do
> this?

The . is a metacharacter.  To get a literal ., you need to escape it:

grep '\.at' *


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Bill Moran

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