How do you grep for a string containing a slash?

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How should I grep for a string containing a forward slash like ./.?

Can you maybe accept an answer to mark the question as resolved? — MERose, Nov 05 '15 at 14:30
On Windows (Git for Windows, MinGW, etc.), forward slashes are sometimes affected by path conversion. Prefix the grep command with `MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1` if needed. — Joey Adams, Dec 12 '22 at 17:54

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '12 at 21:16

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The forward slash is not a special character in grep, but may be in tools like sed, Ruby, or Perl. You probably want to escape your literal periods, though, and it does no harm to escape the slash. This should work in all cases:

\.\/\.

answered Jun 27 '12 at 21:16

Todd A. Jacobs

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score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '12 at 21:14

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You'll just need to escape the periods with a backslash. So if I have a file foo.txt with contents:

./.
foo
bar
./.

I can run grep \./\. test.txt, which should just print the two ./. lines.

answered Jun 27 '12 at 21:14

Peter

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 12 '21 at 10:26

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Try fgrep. In your case fgrep '/<string>'

answered Sep 12 '21 at 10:26

Mahaveer Jangir

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How do you grep for a string containing a slash?

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