Re: more stupid shell tricks

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Craig White wrote:

> 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$

You are using the wrong slash. Use backslash.

Or use fgrep -v (or grep -F -v).

Also cat is not needed.

Jeremy C. Reed

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