On 9/9/24 1:01 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:

The escape works only if you include everything in quotes, in my
experience, e.g.

Yes, which is why I put single quotes in my answer, although I see that double quotes work too. The original question was already using quotes anyway.

On Sun, 2024-09-08 at 18:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 9/8/24 6:10 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Hi All,

I am literally looking for "9.4.5" with grep.  Grep thinks
I want the dots to be wild cards.  What am I doing wrong?

$ curl -L "https://sourceforge.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/files/";
-o -
grep -i '9.4.5'

"." matches any single character.  You have to escape it.
'9\.4\.5'



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