The escape works only if you include everything in quotes, in my experience, e.g. cat jnk: 9.1.2 9n4n4 9.4.4 9.3.3 grep 9\.4\.4 jnk: 9n4n4 9.4.4 grep "9.4.4" jnk: 9n4n4 9.4.4 grep "9\.4\.4" jnk: 9.4.4 billo On Sun, 2024-09-08 at 18:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/8/24 6:10 PM, 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' > > "." matches any single character. You have to escape it. > '9\.4\.5' > -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
