Occurrence of two strings in a line of a file

f_o_555 · #1 11-23-2009

Hi all,
is there a way to find the occurrence of two strings in a line of a file?

e.g. I have

Code:

    XXXX     yyyyy    zzzz 111
    XXXX     yyyyy    zzzz 222
    XXXX     yyyyy    zzzz 333
    XXXX     yyyyy    zzzz 444

dennis.jacob · #2 11-23-2009

Try:

Code:

awk '/XXXX/ && /222/' < filename

f_o_555 · #3 11-23-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by dennis.jacob

Try:

Code:

awk '/XXXX/ && /222/' < filename

can this be made case insensitive (on both strings)? maybe with grep?

dennis.jacob · #4 11-23-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by f_o_555

can this be made case insensitive (on both strings)? maybe with grep?

Try:

Code:

awk 'toupper($0) ~ /XXXX/ && /222/'  < file

f_o_555 · #5 11-23-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by dennis.jacob

Try:

Code:

awk 'toupper($0) ~ /XXXX/ && /222/'  < file

...mmhhh not working... it seems I get no match

could I have, instead of XXXX and 222, two variable in array?
I tried something like

OCCURRENCE=`awk '/blah/ && /${STRING_NAME[1]}/' tmp.tmp1| wc -l`

but it does not work (it does if explicitly use the STRING_NAME value)
Thank you,

daPeach · #6 11-23-2009

Code:

grep -Ei ^X{4}.*2{3}$ your_file

f_o_555 · #7 11-24-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by daPeach

Code:

grep -Ei ^X{4}.*2{3}$ your_file

How can I put in two arbitrary strings $STRING1 and $STRING2?

grep -Ei $STRING1.$STRING2 doesn't work

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