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Re: grep ... cannot escape the "." metacharacter.

From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: grep ... cannot escape the "." metacharacter.
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:19:52 -0400 
    Surely this is not a bug... .but How Do I Escape A "." ???

You need to quote it to the shell so that grep sees the backslash, for
example:
grep '19\.53' testf

Regards,
karl
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