Re: Wildcards

[servis@purdue.edu]

On  8 Jun, timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu wrote:
> Thanks for everyone's help.
> One more question that I couldn't find when I browsed the man pages.
> What does the '$' mean/do in "grep "/$""?
> and what does the '^' mean/do in "grep "^d""?

>From 'man grep', lines 220-222:

       The caret ^ and the dollar sign $ are metacharacters  that
       respectively  match  the empty string at the beginning and
       end of a line.  The symbols \< and \>  respectively  match

	
Thus '/$' only matches / at the end of the line and '^d' only matches d
at the beginning of the line.

Brian 



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