Search from a file.

mjkreddy · #1 (**permalink**) 07-21-2009

Hi,

I have a huge file with 3feilds,and in the 3rd feild there is 038 number which is repetative, now i have to grep only 038 record WHOLE RECORD for that particluar number. and this 038 is also present in 2nd feild as well, but i want to perform grep only on 3rd feild and redirect into new file.

my data is like this

Code:

T000038999 013  038
T000038999 013  054
T000038999 038  077
T000038999 013  098
T000038999 013  038
T000038999 013  041
T000038999 038  043
T000038999 013  038

i have used following code

Code:

grep "^[0-9a-zA-Z]*38" <my file >> test1.txt

but doesn't work for me.

can any one please help me out.

Yogesh Sawant · #2 (**permalink**) 07-21-2009

how about:

Code:

grep '038$' datafile > test1.txt

summer_cherry · #3 (**permalink**) 07-21-2009

Code:

egrep '.* .* 038'

mjkreddy · #4 (**permalink**) 07-21-2009

Yogesh idnt got any thing file was empty.

there are 038 records in 3rd feild as well as 2nd feild but i want to perform search and grep the 3feild records with full row corespoding to 038.

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