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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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Number of backslashes needed for escaping regex backslash on the command-line

I recently had trouble with some regex on the command-line, and found that for matching a backslash, different numbers of characters can be used. This number depends on the quoting used for the regex (...
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