use grep or other command to get exactly pattern

[Mark C. Allman]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 20:35 +0000, Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 08:20pm on Friday, January 18, 2008 (UK time), ann kok scrawled:
> 
> > 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  
> 
> grep 10.0.0.7$ file
> 
> Assuming that there is nothing else on the line after the IP address.
> 
> Steve
> 
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To be nice and general:  
     grep '10\.0\.0\.7[^0-9]' file 
or   grep '10\.0\.0\.7[^:digit:]' file

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