grep lines with two specific characters somewhere in the line

Chthonic · #1 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009

I'm having trouble with extracting certain lines from a file based on whether they have all the required fields.

Original file:

Code:

snt:594:Sam N This
bpt:2342:Bob P That
lr:123
wrp:23:Whoever Person
cor:794

Desired output:

Code:

snt:594:Sam N This
bpt:2342:Bob P That
wrp:23:Whoever Person

I've searched and I haven't been able to find anything to target only these lines. The only thing I can think of is this but it doesn't work:

Code:

grep ":*:" < temp

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009

Code:

grep '.*:.*:.*' myFile
OR
nawk -F: 'NF==3' myFile

Chthonic · #3 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

thegeek · #4 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009

To understand it better, you are missing . (dot) thats all. Previously you had :* which meant zero or more :.

Code:

 grep ":.*:" t1

The above will also work, if the input you had given is as similar as you had given in your 1st post.

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