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Re: [LUG] grep searches

 

On 05/08/12 18:29, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05/08/12 14:13:26, paul sutton wrote:
>>> history | grep -e dd
>>>
>>> I get
>>>
>>> 1079  sudo sudo add-apt-repository
>>> ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
>>> 1080  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
>>> 1803  sudo dd bs=1M if=./2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.-15- of=/dev/sdc
>>> 1805  sudo dd bs=1M if=./2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/sdc
>>>
>>> if I wanted to not include add and just instances of dd how do I do
>>> this,  I tried
>>
>> history|grep -e " dd "
>
> ... may fail if there is a TAB before dd rather than a space...
>
> however, from the 'more than one way to do it' department:
>
>   history | fgrep 'dd\b'
>
> Gordon
>


Ok   I think have it sorted know,  I hope the above info is useful to
other people too :)

thanks,
Paul

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