grep escape methacharacters

[ionpetrache]

Hello all,

I have a question regarding grep an meta-characters.How can I search for a string with grep without interpreting meta-characters.The idea is that I don't want to interpret their special meaning I ant grep to interpret the string as it it.

I know that I can escape them but for me this is not an answer because the string that I'll search for is given by a script so I don't know how it looks like.

I looking for something (a flag or another unix utility) that doesn't interpret regexp characters.

Thanks!

[mrtiller]

use fgrep or grep -F if the -F switch is supported by your grep

[ionpetrache]

Thanks a lot!

use fgrep or grep -F if the -F switch is supported by your grep