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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep Exact word Post 302764039 by bakunin on Thursday 31st of January 2013 12:07:08 AM
Old 01-31-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by tapia
if i do grep TEST /etc/oratab
it gives me all lines
This is no wonder: when you search for "TEST", you will find everything containing "TEST", therefore "TEST2", "XTEST", "TESTX", etc.

If you want to find only specific lines you will have to enlarge your search pattern so much that it becomes distinct. In your case this could be done by including the ":", which seems to separate the first from the second part of the line. Searching for "TEST:" will only find the first line, not the others.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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specrb - standalone test runner for test/spec and Test::Unit test suites SYNOPSIS
specrb [OPTIONS] [FILES | -a ] [-- untouched arguments] DESCRIPTION
The Ruby script specrb allows you to run tests written with test/spec from the command line. It can also be used for plain Test::Unit test suites. You can either specify the names of the test files you want to run, or let specrb find automatically all the tests in your project, by using the -a switch (see TEST/SPEC OPTIONS below). You can also use various options on the command line to pass parameters to the Ruby interpreterm or to modify the behavior of test/spec and/or test/unit. RUBY OPTIONS
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