Hi all, I wrote a bash script and all but the two commands below were marked wrong, so I need to correct them. Hope you don't mind pointing out my mistakes: 1. needs to output how many lines are there with a . (period) in them. I used the escape char \ before the period, but it apparently didn't work. echo Output the number of lines that have a \"\.\" \(period\): grep -c \. ./test.file 2. this one needs to output the number of lines containing the string '/*': echo Output the number of lines that have the string \"'/'\*\": grep -c /\* ./test.file Thanks a lot in advance! Ned