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Searching string using grep and ignoring contents in between

I am using below command to search string ."66688." in all the files inside newfolder. This is working fine.

grep --exclude=\*.{atr,out} -rnw '/tmp/newfolder' -e '."66688"'

However I the number 66688 in between ." is not constant, neither the length of the number. Hence I want to modify this command to grep file ."WHATEVER_IN_BETWEEN_DOESNT_MATTER"

grep --exclude=\*.{atr,out} -rnw '/tmp/newfolder' -e '."66688"'
Solution

  • You may use a regex here:

    grep --exclude=\*.{atr,out} -rnw '/tmp/newfolder' -e '\.".*"'

    \.".*" will match any text that starts with ." and ends with ".