extract words with even numbr of letters

manish205 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

Hello All

I need to extract words which are of even number of letters and not greater than 10.

Any help??

Thanks,
Manish

Klashxx · #2 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

Show us your input and you expected output.

vino · #3 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

Perhaps something like

Code:

tr " " "\n" < file.txt | sed -n -e "/^[[:alpha:]]\{2\}$/p;/^[[:alpha:]]\{4\}$/p;/^[[:alpha:]]\{6\}$/p;/^[[:alpha:]]\{8\}$/p"

Tytalus · #4 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

hacky solution:

Code:

 egrep "^..$|^\(..\)$|^......$|^........$" file

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