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

Recently I came across an issue in grep. I was trying to match the pattern x.y.z and grep returned x.y-z.Using some regular expression we may can overcome this, but with grep whole word matching did not help. Since the script I was writing is a generic one, I cannot restrict search for a specific way as in like x.y.z or x.y-z ..

Quick way I figured is to run a grep and then a condition check var="x.y.z" var1=grep -o x.y.z file.txt if [ $var1 == $var ] echo "Pattern match exact" else echo "Pattern does not match exact" fi

https://linuxacatalyst.blogspot.com/2019/12/grep-pattern-matching-issues.html