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Old 02-15-2012
Grep Wildcard search
How can i grep for a pattern with wildcard using grep?

I want to identify all the lines that start with SAM and end in .PIPE

Code:
 
 
IN.TXT
 
SAM_HEADER.PIPE
SAM_DETAIL.PIPE
SAM_INVOICE.PIPE

Can i do something like
Code:
 
 
grep SAM*.PIPE IN.TXT

it didnt really work
# 2  
Old 02-15-2012
Should be '.*' and if you didn't quote it on the command line you should.

Code:
grep "SAM.*PIPE" IN.TXT

You also might want to grep for this:
Code:
"^SAM.*PIPE$"

That pattern anchors 'SAM' at the beginning of the line, and 'PIPE' at the end of the line.
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Old 02-16-2012
That did the trick..Thanks
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