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From: jrw@mtune.att.com (Jim Webb)
Subject: Re: How do I search for apostrophe using egrep?
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.174547.14539@mtune.att.com>
Keywords: Is this a trick question?
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References: <1991Jun25.074801.517@weyrich.UUCP>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 17:45:47 GMT

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'.
>
>I can't seem to get this to work. 

		egrep "'.*'" filename

works for me on SVR3.

---Jim