On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 05:09, Cedric Veilleux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>       What is the correct regular expression for a simple $ character? I want to 
> filter a file for any lines containing a $ char, but it does not work..
> 
>       man grep tells me $ is a special regular expression char.. I try to escape it 
> using \$ but it doesn't work..

Oddly a double backslash (\\) escape works, with or without quotes, but
don't ask me why!

grep "\\$" afile

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