Parsing data from an NBE file

[Michel Arboi]

On Fri Nov 12 2004 at 20:54, Christopher J Bidwell wrote:

> grep 172.23.3 oldnbe.nbe > newnbe.nbe
> This obviously isn't very precise in that I'm going to get 172.23.3,
> 172.23.30-39, etc.  How can I make my greps more precise when doing
> this?

grep uses regex. "." is a special character that matches anything.
You have to escape it (as it was already answered) or use fgrep (or
grep -F) which matches strings 

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