How to grep for a string in a file

kaprasanna · 01-06-2009, 06:13 AM

Hello,

I have an xml file which has many lines like this :

Code:

myFileCode="null#9"
myFileTimeCode="null#123"
myFileMachineCode="null#145"

I want to list all the lines which has above string.
I tried the following with no result :

Code:

grep "MyFileCode="null#9"" myfile.xml
grep "MyFileCode='"'null#9'"' myfile.xml

How do I solve this seemingly easy problem?

Thanks in advance.

arungoodboy · 01-06-2009, 06:17 AM

You'll need to escape the double quotes with a backslash. This should work:

Code:

grep "myFileCode=\"null#9\"" myfile.xml

makuyl · 01-06-2009, 06:18 AM

Use a lower case m in the beginning to match the row in your file, and use backslashes to escape the ":s in the row.

Code:

grep "myFileCode=\"null#9\"" myfile.xml

Edit: ...and I was too slow.

kaprasanna · 01-06-2009, 06:29 AM

arungoodboy

Thanks so much. It worked great.