Re: use grep or other command to get exactly pattern

[Brian Chadwick <brianchad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Konstantin Svist wrote:
> ann kok wrote:
> > how can use grep or use other command to get exactly
> > pattern eg: 10.0.0.7 only?
> >
> > eg: grep 10.0.0.7 file. I want to get 10.0.0.7 only
> > not 
> > 10.0.0.71
> > 10.0.0.72
> > 10.0.0.7
> >   
>
>
> Use egrep instead - it allows you to use regular expressions.
> Then write a regexp for your case. For instance, if you have 
> end-of-line right after the IP address, you can use '10\.0\.0\.7$'
grep "10.0.0.7" file

the inverted commas are required