Re: [Hampshire] Escape characters with man | grep

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Owain Clarke <simbobo@???> wrote:
> I'm sure this is an easy one for you:-
>
> If I want to read a line from a man page with a character which needs
> escaping, how do I do it? For example, to read the -r option of rsync:-
> man rsync | grep -r
> produces no output, presumably because the - needs escaping.

kish@Griffin:~$ man rsync|grep "\-av"

something like this.

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