I need to grep a string from a file, which contains '`' character. How to achieve this? Wrapping string around " and ' doesn't work.
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Can you give some information about the underlying operating system and shell you are using (e.g. default Ubuntu 14.04 and its "Terminal" application or whatever it is called). – Felix Aug 20 '15 at 19:14
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1\` is not an apostrophe, it's a backtick. – melpomene Aug 20 '15 at 19:29
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@melpomene Thank you for clarification english language :) – Piotr Aug 20 '15 at 20:13
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in CentOS, grep -rP and \x60 as '`' did the job. – Piotr Aug 21 '15 at 00:10
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To grep from a file which has a backtick in its name you can put a backspace in front of it. The same works for finding a string that holds the backtick. e.g.:
grep \` stupid\`filename
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That's right. Double quotes ("), however, do not work. – Pieter Bruegel the Elder Aug 20 '15 at 22:32
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Thanks, however, my file was OK, I was looking for a string quoted by backtick. – Piotr Aug 21 '15 at 00:13
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@melpomene Well, you are almost correct. However, if you have simple text file than this statement doesn't apply. Ie. in mysql dump file you have tables names wrapped by backticks. – Piotr Aug 21 '15 at 08:55