You need to escape the ".". "." stands for any character.
At 04:41 PM 1/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Theres probably a very simple answer to this question, but I cannot for the
>life of me figure it out. How do you grep for an EXACT match of a string?
>I have a file that looks something like this:
>
>10.1. #Bridgewater
>10.10. #Scranton
>10.12. #White Plains
>10.13. #Warwick
>10.14. #Tampa
>10.16. #One Penn Plaza
>10.17. #Mt. Prospect
>10.18. #Denver
>
>I'm trying to grep for the exact match of 10.1. in a script. That string
>will actually be in a variable defined previously in the script.
>When the grep runs, it not only outputs the line 10.1. #Bridgewater
>(which is what I want), but it gives me every other line
>containing 10.1?. How do I prevent that from happening? I've tried
>putting single quotes, double quotes, etc around the variable
>name, but have had no success. Am I missing something simple
>here?...............Lucy
>
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