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From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do I search for apostrophe using egrep?
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.142322.25973@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 91 14:23:22 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.074801.517@weyrich.UUCP>
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In article <1991Jun25.074801.517@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>I have been trying to make egrep search for words which are enclosed in
>apostrophes, for example 'hello'.
>

egrep "'hello'" filename or

egrep \'hello\' filename