grep for **** 1

[ianicr]

I have a file and some lines have ******* in the line. I want to remove these lines. to remove lines normally I would use grep -v whatever filename
how do I do a grep for ****
I've tried grep -v "***" and grep -v '****' but this doesn't work.
Thanks

 

[jad]

grep -v '\*\*\*\*'

using back-slash to make the star a literal

 

[ianicr]

Cheers. Knew it was something like that but couldn't remember. Have a Star!

 

[Salem]

Or you could just use fgrep which just searches for fixed strings (none of the regular expression chars are special)


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