I want to grep for a function call ‘init()’ in all JavaScript files in a directory. How do I do this using grep?
Particularly, how do I escape parenthesis, ()?
I want to grep for a function call ‘init()’ in all JavaScript files in
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I want to grep for a function call ‘init()’ in all JavaScript files in a directory. How do I do this using grep?
Particularly, how do I escape parenthesis, ()?
It depends. If you use regular grep, you don’t escape:
You actually have to escape if you want to use the parentheses as grouping.
If you use extended regular expressions, you do escape: