use grep or other command to get exactly pattern

[Norman Gaywood]

ann kok wrote:
> how can use grep or use other command to get exactly
> pattern eg: 10.0.0.7 only?
>
> eg: grep 10.0.0.7 file. I want to get 10.0.0.7 only
> not  
> 10.0.0.71
> 10.0.0.72
> 10.0.0.7

grep '^10\.0\.0\.7$' file   

The ^ means the start of the line, \. means match a "." character. If
you just used . it means to match any character. $ means the
end of the line.
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