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Old 05-22-2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shereenmotor
Code:
egrep '^a\{2,6\}$' testexpr4D
shereenmotor, that solution is pretty close, but no cigar !

You are mixing the syntax's of sed and [e]grep.

If it were sed, it would be

Code:
sed -n -e "/^a\{2,6\}$/p" filename
If it were grep it would be

Code:
egrep '^a{2,6}$' filename