Unix question

[Kenneth Brody]

George Simon wrote:
> 
> Thanks.
> The quotes were not necessary.  Ken's example worked perfectly.
> I was trying to look for the string rctp(54)=
> The \ is a escape character (just like in filePro) to tell grep (I guess)
> that the (  and  ) are part of the string being searched,
[...]
> >       grep  rcpt\(54\)= prc.*
[...]

If that was your intent, it didn't do what you wanted, since the
shell sees them first. You need to double them to get one passed
to the program.

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