Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

[John Clarke]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:22:11AM +1000, George Vieira wrote:

> $TMP contains a PID number which I need to grep out of the modemlist$$.tmp
> file but need to check with spaces eg.. " $TMP " to prevent numbers like
> 43512 popping up when searching for 435 etc..

Try 'grep -w' to restrict the match to whole words.

Cheers,

John
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