THanks to Ian Mortimer.
ORIGINAL QUESTION
=====================
> At the risk of going majorly off topic....
>
> I need to be able to find all occurences of the string "{0, '\0'}" from
> many files. Within the files these are entries such as;
>
> VARCHAR GmtDay1[LEN_DATE] = {0,'\0'};
> VARCHAR GmtDay2[LEN_DATE] = {0,'\0'};
>
> I have been successfully been using 'find' with it's numerous swiches and
> getting find to call 'grep'. I have been trying to use grep to pick up the
> "{0, '\0'}" string. However, grep seems to interpret the '\' and the '{',
> '}' as special characters. Can anyone please tell me how I de-limit these
so
> that I can pull out rows that satisfy this criteria from a file.
ANSWER
========
grep -F "{0,'\0'}"
or
fgrep "{0,'\0'}"
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Received on Tue Jul 30 2002 - 05:10:07 NZST