use grep or other command to get exactly pattern

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, John  BORIS wrote:

> You can do this
> grep 10.0.0.7. filename
>
> The last period may work as a space. Or do this
> grep "10.0.0.7 " filename
>
> That might work as well

i would use the "-w" option to force the string to be a separate word.

rday
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