On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:46:28 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: > Guys, > > I am sorry to ask such a newbie question, and my eyes are crossed, no > caffeine, and I have try everything on the man pages and my serveral books > and I am not getting the answer. > > Ok. Here are my two question, and two question they yet be. > > I need to know the flag for grep to get the exact phrase, for payne. > > when I do grep for payne...I like this... > > cpayne > cepayne > payne > apayne > > I know it got to be simple.
egrep '\<payne\>' whatever-file.txt > Also, why can I do this zgrep -c, how can I get a count with zgrep. Can you post an example of a complete command and the error message that you get? -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
