> > cat f > > $Log: Blah > > > grep "\$Log: .*\$" f > > $Log: Blah > > I am actually looking for a line which has Dollar Log Colon ...any > characters...dollar...any characters...but this still returns the line, even > thought it is missing the last dollar. I am sure this is a pretty obvious > one, please help. Citation from Solaris' man: *** Be careful using the characters $, *, [, ^, |, (, ), and \ in the pattern_list because they are also meaningful to the shell. It is safest to enclose the entire pattern_list in single quotes '... '. *** So, just use '\$Log: .*\$' to get the right result. -- Egor http://www.oracledba.ru -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l