Guys, im using grep to search data. But this what i wanted:

$cat file|grep datas
datas1
datas2

but how can i produce like this

$cat file1 |grep ultimatum
ultimatum-1
ultimatum-2
ultimate
ultimate2 to be included in my search,what is the command

hi

try this...
cat filename |grep -i 'ultimat*'

thanks

any solution that will not use wildcard? because my variable will be hostname in my servers, sor for example my server name is
ultimatum, i also want to get ultimate1, then my other server name is datas
i wanna get data1. So i wont declare ultimat* or data* just command that similar to that. My program is to automate


so it will be:
for i in `hostname`
do
cat $i /etc/hosts
. . . .

The wildcard (and the cat, mind you) are wrong anyway.

egrep allows you to specify patterns with alternates in them. Like this:

If you have a large list of host names, then perhaps something like this:

So the here document contains the "file" of host names on standard input which is being promised by the "-f -" option. Needless to say, this won't work inside a pipeline, but perhaps you can make something of it.

Read up on regular expressions and the differences between grep, egrep, and fgrep.

my ultimatum /etc/hosts contains like this

ultimatum 192.10.5.2 # live
ultimate 192.5.3 #backup
testserver 10.1.1.1

my datas /etc/hosts contains like this

datas 192.2.3.3 #live
data1 192.3.2.1 #backup
testserver 10.1.1.1

and so on..
i already made a script for this remsh, to remotely get the backup.
so by
$hostname
i do now have a variable for the output hostname,
what i wanted a made a universal to get the backup hope you understand what im trying to say.

I still can't say I understand what your requirements are really. So if you are on datas you want to grep for data1, based on the second line of /etc/hosts on that machine, and similarly other patterns on other machines? Please elaborate.

beacuse i wont suppose to decalare ultimatum or datas which is my histname.
i will just input this comman
$hostname - output of this will be my variable. So no need to declare,just by typing hostname. No need to declare because i have plenty of server and my scri[pt is uniform.

so here it goes,
how can i search i can get my hostname and my backup hostname in /etc/hosts