How do I search for apostrophe using egrep?

[Jim Webb]

In article <1991Jun25.074801.517 at weyrich.UUCP> orville at weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>I have been trying to make egrep search for words which are enclosed in
>apostrophes, for example 'hello'.
>
>I can't seem to get this to work. 

		egrep "'.*'" filename

works for me on SVR3.

---Jim