Re: How to grep #tag?

Hi, Life!

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 21:09:26 -0000 (UTC)
Lifepillar <lifepillar@lifepillar.me> wrote:

> How can I grep text with a special symbol, such as #?
>
> I would like to search a bunch of files containing various #tags, but if
> I try from the command line:
>
> :grep #sometag
>
> that does not work. Escaping the hash causes grep to exit with an error:
>
> :grep \#sometag
>

Either:

:grep \\#p

Or:

:grep '\#p'

Seem to work here in gvim (Linux; shell is either bash or zsh).

> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Life.
>



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