Lucy, use "grep -w" (word).
Blaine Owens
Eastman Chemical Company
Email - bowens@eastman.com
Phone - (423)229-3579
Fax - (423)229-1188
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucy Premus [SMTP:lpremus@metlife.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 4:41 PM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Grep
>
> 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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