Display exact matches only with grep

Question

How can I display all jobs that ended OK only?

When I try the command below, it shows both OK and NOTOK since both have \"OK\"

ctmpsm -listall applic         


        

Answer 1

This worked for me:

grep  "\bsearch_word\b"  text_file > output.txt  ## \b indicates boundaries. This is much faster.

or,

grep -w "search_word" text_file > output.txt