Re: more stupid shell tricks

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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backslash (\) is the escape character, not slash (/).
grep -v '\$'
works for me.
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