ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > I am literally looking for "9.4.5" with grep. Grep thinks > I want the dots to be wild cards. What am I doing wrong? > > $ curl -L "https://sourceforge.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/files/"; -o - | > grep -i '9.4.5' To take another tangent, the curl `-o -` option can be dropped. The default output _is_ stdout, so specifying it here is needless cruft. -o, --output <file> Write output to <file> instead of stdout. [...] I'd suggest using `-sS` as well when piping, to avoid the progress and other status output. -s, --silent Silent or quiet mode. Do not show progress meter or error messages. Makes Curl mute. It will still output the data you ask for, potentially even to the terminal/stdout unless you redirect it. -S, --show-error When used with -s, --silent, it makes curl show an error message if it fails. Altogether, that makes the command shorter and the output a little cleaner. Of course, grepping for the version string in HTML output is really never going to be clear. There are likely better ways to achieve the goal, whatever it may be. One exception would be if the goal is to simply know that there is a match, and then adding `-q` to the grep command would be ideal. Or adding the `-o` (`--only-matching`) option along with `-m1` (`--max-count=1`) to only show one match. In that case, dropping the `-S` from curl avoids an error from curl about writing the output when grep unceremoniously closes the pipe. But all that suggests that screen scraping HTML output is almost never the ideal solution. -- Todd
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