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How to use grep string that has double quotes in it
So I'm running a simple alias called vpn which runs a command and has an output, which I put into a .txt file.
If interested to what exactly then here is the alias
alias vpn="docker exec -it ...
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Backslash usage in different commands
I have been trying to get a better understanding of how backslash is used in certain commands. I understand its usage for escaping special characters (Such as echo 'that'\''s no moon'
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Why does the grep command ignore the period in the search string?
The command that I am using:
find . -type f -name "*.sql" -exec grep -i -l 'schema_name.' {} +
What I want to search is all the files which contain schema_name..
But the find command is ignoring the ...
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Why does "grep '.*[s]' file" work and "grep .*[s] file" doesn't?
Comparing
grep '.*[s]' file
with
grep .*[s] file
Why do you need quotation marks to let this work properly? In the second case, grep seems trying to inspect every file with a period.
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