I found a few questions here similar to this but they are not quite identical.
I want to grep for the text 'true' format
in certain files.
How do I do it?
Not sure how to escape the single quotes around true
.
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Answer
Just wrap the string within double quotes:
grep "'true' format" your_file
Test
$ cat a this is 'true' format and this is true formatting test $ grep "'true' format" a this is 'true' format