I'm grepping through my C++ code for a delete that uses []

How (in tcsh on MAC OS X) do I grep for that?

grep [] *.cpp *.h

doesn't work...

grep "[]" *.cpp *.h

doesn't work either....

TIA

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"SpreadTooThin" <bjobrien62@gmail.com> wrote in
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> I'm grepping through my C++ code for a delete that uses []
>
> How (in tcsh on MAC OS X) do I grep for that?
>
> grep [] *.cpp *.h
>
> doesn't work...
>
> grep "[]" *.cpp *.h

Square brackets have special meaning in regular expressions.

Try

grep "\[\]" *.cpp *.h

MV

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2007-03-29, 10:10(-07), SpreadTooThin:
> I'm grepping through my C++ code for a delete that uses []
>
> How (in tcsh on MAC OS X) do I grep for that?
>
> grep [] *.cpp *.h
>
> doesn't work...
>
> grep "[]" *.cpp *.h
>
> doesn't work either....
[...]

grep -F '[]' *.cpp *.h

sometimes refered to as fgrep.

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