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Subject: RE: grep and exact matches help..
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 18:43:14 +0100
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On 03 April 2007 18:33, Kevin Markle wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I can't seem to find a way to get grep to do exact matches in cygwin. I
> have looked at the man pages and can find nothing? :/

  grep only does exact matches if you don't use any of the wildcard chars,
perhaps 'exact matches' isn't quite what you mean.  Are you perhaps looking
for the '-o' option?  Or do you mean you want to match an entire line, in
which case put '^' at the start of your comparison-string and '$' at the end.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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