grep for text with wild card in between

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beatbreaker picture beatbreaker · May 6, 2011 · Viewed 49.6k times · Source

I would like to grep something like ==> *.sh <==. But it doesn't work, I can grep everything up to .sh <== but not get the wild card to work.

What's the trick here?

Answer

sayap picture sayap · May 6, 2011

You need to grep for something like "==> .*\.sh <=="

The .* part matches any character for any length, the \. part matches a dot.

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