On 03 April 2007 18:33, Kevin Markle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't seem to find a way to get grep to do exact matches in cygwin. I
> have looked at the man pages and can find nothing? :/
grep only does exact matches if you don't use any of the wildcard chars,
perhaps 'exact matches' isn't quite what you mean. Are you perhaps looking
for the '-o' option? Or do you mean you want to match an entire line, in
which case put '^' at the start of your comparison-string and '$' at the end.
cheers,
DaveK
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