Why '$' in regex isn't working as expected in debian?

Asked Jan 19 '21 at 07:19

Active Jan 19 '21 at 08:02

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I have the following file:

cat regex16.txt gives

    foo bar baz
    bar foo baz
    baz foo bar
    bar baz foo
    foo baz bar
    baz bar foo

I want to grep only the lines which end with bar.

So, I am using $ symbol to grep for bar. But, I don't get any results. What am I doing wrong here?

grep '.*bar$' regex16.txt

Why bar$ isn't working here?

edited Jan 19 '21 at 08:02

AdminBee

asked Jan 19 '21 at 07:19

tannoy connect

6

Use `cat -A` and see if you have spaces or something at the end of those lines. – muru Jan 19 '21 at 07:27
5

Was an MS-Windows or Dos system involved at any point? – ctrl-alt-delor Jan 19 '21 at 07:55
4

The `.*` is redundant. – Freddy Jan 19 '21 at 08:01

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