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help with grep... only print specific string with multiple matches?

I have a text file with hard drive image checksums and file names like so:

Code:

e651cc31e6837e9718a9e216669eacd2 hda

011c0bc5930ba01a479755fa62dfabe8 hda1.first_sectors

459ebcaa3131929b356c5227aa26745f hda2.000

f63d3c1bca1db879bdd924cbc71e533c hda2.first_sectors

and I have loop that checks the md5sums against the files after copying them across the network. the problem is hda is obviously not working as it pulls up the above 4 lines. Is there anyway to grep to exclude everything except an exact match of "hda"?

Code:

grep -wv 'hda' file

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghostdog74 (Post 3537096)

Code:

grep -wv 'hda' file

Awesome, I kind of asked backwards... grep -w does exactly what I want!

Thanks,
Trey