This may be a stupid comment... but wouldn't grep interpret the $ from the
Dell 4600-c1$ that are being passed to it from "getent passwd | awk -F: '$3 >
499 {print $1 }'"
I am really not that experienced so I don't know... 


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 11:52 -0700, Mike Garfias wrote:
> > Your shell is intrepreting $.  Make it literal by wrapping it in single
> > quotes.
> > grep -v '$'
> > 
> ---
> I've been trying all sorts of things...
> 
> #cat users
> marsha
> 4600c-1$
> # cat users|grep -v $
> # cat users|grep -v '$'
> # cat users|grep -v "$"
> # cat users|grep -v /$
> marsha
> 4600c-1$
> # cat users|grep -v '/$'
> marsha
> 4600c-1$
> 
> :::sigh:::
> 
> 
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