grep special characters

by prettyscripts on 2008-03-10 11:03:18

unix

to type special characters, such as tab key, on command line, use <ctrl>+V to escape the special character.

$ grep "<ctrl>+V+<key>"

Tags: grep, shell, special char, unix

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