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How is \$ being interpreted by grep?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202614894 views
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Problem

When I write then whatever I type on terminal, is matched and printed on terminal. How is being interpreted?

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$ grep \$

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The shell is interpreting the and passing it through to grep as , the end of line character. So assuming your line has an end, it will match :-) If you want to match an actual in grep, use one of: In the former, the shell interprets as and as , givi…

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