Grep exact match not working
<p>I've a properties file </p>

<pre><code>myprop2=this is with &lt;br/&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>When I'm trying to grep for <code>&lt;br&gt;</code></p>

<pre><code>grep "^myprop.*=.`*&lt;br&gt;*`" MyProject.properties | xargs | cut -d '=' -f 1
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<p>Why is it finding <strong>myprop2</strong> ?</p>

<p>Note : I'm finding <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> instead of <code>&lt;br/&gt;</code> ( without the ending tag)</p>