On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:09 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote: > 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::: > > > backslash (\) is the escape character, not slash (/). > grep -v '\$' > works for me. --- yes - that was the ticket single quotes and slash - I was getting frustrated and actually knew that - but it was lost in the gears somewhere Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss