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I am using shell to search for a specific string withing PHP files on a server. The string is
[…]
Normally I would use something like:
grep “my string” *.php
but it does not work with these characters. Do I need to escape them? How?
“[“, “.”, and “]” are special characters so they all need to be escaped.
grep \[\.\.\.\] *.php