Hi

I have been experimenting with grep to find values for a particular column that is greater than or less than certain #'s.

So my file looks like this:

name   -2  2
name1 -2  2
name2 -1  4
name3  3  3

name   -2  2
name1 -2  3
name3  3  3

Horses for courses.

Why bust a gut with grep when other tools make light work of this sort of thing?

example awk oneliner:

awk ' $2<=-2 || $2>=3' myfile

hi thank you for the solution. It works..

what if I want to find something within a range lets say between -2 and 3. Obviously the directions of the arrows wont work.

thanks

Hi Phil, have you tried reversing the comparison operators? You can find out from Jim's solution what they look like.

Hey,

yeah I tried that

but that will give everything greater than -3 and everything less than 2.

5
4
3
2
1
0
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5

2
1
0
-1
-2
-3

awk ' $2>=-2 && $2<=3'