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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers using sed or grep to find exact match of text Post 302249754 by risk_sly on Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 04:10:53 AM
Old 10-22-2008
using sed or grep to find exact match of text
Hi,

Can anyone help me with the text editing I need here. I have a file that contains the following lines for example: (line numbers are for illustration only)

1 Hello world fantasy.
2 Hello worldfuntastic.
3 Hello world wonderful.

I would like to get all those lines of text that contains the word "world" without anything after it. Meaning, I would like to have lines 1 and 3, line 2 should not be included because it contains "worldfuntastic", no space between.

1 Hello world fantasy.
3 Hello world wonderful

The problem is, there are some lines that use TAB to separate words like line 3. When I use grep "world " <filename>, this will get all lines of text with the word "world" and space after it but not those with TAB, i.e. the results would only be:
1 Hello world fantasy

line 3 is not included because "world" and "wonderful" are separated by TAB. Any suggestions, please?
 

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plw3d

PLW3D(3plplot)							    PLplot API							    PLW3D(3plplot)

NAME

       plw3d - Set up window for 3-d plotting

SYNOPSIS

       plw3d(basex, basey, height, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, zmin, zmax, alt, az)

DESCRIPTION

       Sets  up a window for a three-dimensional surface plot within the currently defined two-dimensional window.  The enclosing box for the sur-
       face plot defined by xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, zmin and zmax in user-coordinate space is mapped into a box of world coordinate size basex	by
       basey  by  height so that xmin maps to -basex/2, xmax maps to basex/2, ymin maps to -basey/2, ymax maps to basey/2, zmin maps to 0 and zmax
       maps to height.	The resulting world-coordinate box is then viewed by an observer at altitude alt and azimuth az.   This  routine  must	be
       called  before plbox3(3plplot) or plot3d(3plplot).  For a more complete description of three-dimensional plotting see the PLplot documenta-
       tion.

       Redacted form: plw3d(basex, basey, height, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, zmin, zmax, alt, az)

       This function is examples 8,11,18,21.

ARGUMENTS

       basex (PLFLT, input)
	      The x coordinate size of the world-coordinate box.

       basey (PLFLT, input)
	      The y coordinate size of the world-coordinate box.

       height (PLFLT, input)
	      The z coordinate size of the world-coordinate box.

       xmin (PLFLT, input)
	      The minimum user x coordinate value.

       xmax (PLFLT, input)
	      The maximum user x coordinate value.

       ymin (PLFLT, input)
	      The minimum user y coordinate value.

       ymax (PLFLT, input)
	      The maximum user y coordinate value.

       zmin (PLFLT, input)
	      The minimum user z coordinate value.

       zmax (PLFLT, input)
	      The maximum user z coordinate value.

       alt (PLFLT, input)
	      The viewing altitude in degrees above the XY plane.

       az (PLFLT, input)
	      The viewing azimuth in degrees.  When az=0, the observer is looking face onto the ZX plane, and as az  is  increased,  the  observer
	      moves clockwise around the box when viewed from above the XY plane.

AUTHORS

       Geoffrey  Furnish  and  Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot.  This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook source of the
       PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO

       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.

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