On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 20:35 +0000, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 08:20pm on Friday, January 18, 2008 (UK time), ann kok scrawled: > > > how can use grep or use other command to get exactly > > pattern eg: 10.0.0.7 only? > > > > eg: grep 10.0.0.7 file. I want to get 10.0.0.7 only > > not > > grep 10.0.0.7$ file > > Assuming that there is nothing else on the line after the IP address. > > Steve > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list To be nice and general: grep '10\.0\.0\.7[^0-9]' file or grep '10\.0\.0\.7[^:digit:]' file -- Mark C. Allman, PMP -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 BusinessMsg -- the secure, managed, J2EE/AJAX Enterprise IM/IC solution -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list