Rigler, Steve wrote:
Try "grep -w"

That will work if the word is on a line by itself. If there may be other words on the line, try this:


grep '\Wsomething\W'

That will match the target string only if it surrounded by non-word characters (whitespace, puncutation, end-of-line).

Tony
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