Grep words with special symbols How do I grep this? (Including the special characters) "Limit reached."[\n]" I tried back-slashing the special symbols but end up not working, like this: grep '\"Limit reached\.\"\[\\n\]\" ' I also tried other techniques but also not working. Is there any other syntax you could suggest/advice?

use -F in grep


$ cat test.txt
"Limit reached."[\
]"
test
"Limit reached."[\
]"

$ grep -F '"Limit reached."[\
]"' test.txt
"Limit reached."[\
]"
"Limit reached."[\
]"


As per Manual page,

>
> -F, --fixed-strings, --fixed-regexp
> Interpret PATTERN as a list of fixed strings, separated by newlines, any of which is to be matched. (-F is specified by> POSIX,
> --fixed-regexp is an obsoleted alias, please do not use it new scripts.)
>