grep functionality

[Dave Walley]

Hi.

I have to extract from a file a string that contain slashes. I want to select a particular string from a file, the problem is that there are other lines that contain this string also.

The file contains the following lines among others. I only want to select the first i.e. not the line containing account.

/bkup/export
/bkup/export/account

I have tried using grep but with no sucess.

Can anyone please help me.

Dave

[Patrick Wessel]

try grep -x

good luck

[mark alexander]

Dave,

Use the 'head' command to strip just the first line returned from grep, e.g.

grep '/bkup/export' filename | head -1

mwa

[Dave Wherry · Accepted solution]

This should work:
grep "/bkup/export" | grep -v "/bkup/export/"

[Klaus Frank]

Hallo Dave

Why don't you try this

cat file_name | awk ? $1=="/bkup/export" ?

I allways prefare awk for it is much more powerfull than grep is.

best regards
Klaus

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

Try :

grep '/bkup/export$' if lines ends w/ export

or grep '/bkup/export ' if not