grep for text with wild card in between
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You need to grep for something like "==> .*\.sh <=="
The .* part matches any character for any length, the \. part matches a dot.
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Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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beatbreaker almost 2 years
I would like to grep something like
==> *.sh <==. But it doesn't work, I can grep everything up to.sh <==but not get the wild card to work.What's the trick here?
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pavium about 13 yearsso, the '==> *.sh <==' is all in the file? You need to use a regular expression.
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Tony Delroy about 13 years(By way of explanation, "*.sh" is a filename glob pattern, which is a completely different notation for matching than the regular expressions expected by grep. In regular expressions, * means 0 or more repetitions of the previous expression, which in your case was a space. A dot means any character at all. So, " *.sh" could match " Xsh" but never "file.sh". Google regular expresions for details / examples etc.)
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Sergey Telshevsky about 11 years@TonyD great comment but use
backquotes to delimit code or terminology so readers won't have to think was the double quote/quote a part of the command or not
