UNIX/Linux: How to specify the beginning of a line or the ending of a line with anchors

The Beginning of Line anchor and the End of Line anchor are "^" and "$". I'm going to show you how to use these special charactors using regular expressions to look for a string/word/pattern that is in specific locations(Beginning/Ending of line).

Example:

grep ^Begin
grep END$
grep ^thewordURLookingforatbeginningoffline
grep the wordURLookingforattheENDoftheLine$

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Education

Tags:

• UNIX/Linux
• End of line anchor
• Beginning of line anchor
• regular expression
• regex
• grep