Many correct answers to this one, obviously this is a FAQ. I'm attaching one of the best responses, this one from Joe Rice. Thanks to all. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Rice [mailto:jrice@abnamroinc.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:54 PM To: Owens, Blaine C - Eastman Subject: Re: How to search for a string containing \ # echo '\' > test.txt # grep '\\' test.txt \ # the key here is to escape the \ with another \ Also, use '\\' (single quote) instead of "\\" (double quote) because of the way the shell will interpret the \ in a double quote. # awk '/\\/ { print $0 }' test.txt / # # perl -ne 'if ( /\\/ ) { print }' test.txt / hope this helps. joe rice >>> "Owens, Blaine C - Eastman" <bowens@eastman.com> 07/31/03 09:03AM >>> How do you grep for a string in file which literally contains the \ character? Thanks. Blaine Owens _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Jul 31 13:23:51 2003
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