[KLUG Members] Re: grep, egrep, fgrep

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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:11:36AM -0400, Robert G. Brown was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> > Should I still be escaping the period somehow anyway?

If you want to eliminate false positives, which may be important,
depending on what you're doing with the info so gathered.

> IMO, yes. I do it with success:  ls -l |grep \.s

ls -l | grep \\.s

Or the shell throws away your single backslash. Or use '\.s'.

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