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Old 08-07-2009
Getting unique list of numbers using grep

Hi,

I am going to fetch a list of numbers that starts with "0032" from a file with a format like the given below:

"
0032459999 0032458888 0032457777
0032451111 0032452222 0032453333


0032459999 0032458888 0032457777
0032451111 0032452222 0032453333
"
I want to get a unique list of number that starts with "0032".

How can it be achived using grep command. (also we may require sed, sort and uniq along with grep)

Just a note, the file will be a large in size with lot of repetation.
But just i need a unique list of numbers that starts with the pattern "0032".

I am planning to use fopen, reading the file line by line and then adding it to a array list...
But I guess, it can be done more effeciently using grep.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
tinku.
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Old 08-07-2009
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Code:
grep ^0032 infile| sort| uniq

# 3  
Old 08-07-2009
Thanks for the help.

i have missed some information in my previous communication.

The number starts with the pattern "0032" and it is 10 character length. And I will
get multiple numbers on the same lines. Some blank spaces, blank lines will also come in between the data.

A sample file, as follows:

<Sample data>
0032459999 0032458888 0032457777
0032451111 0032452222 0032453333


0032459999 0032458888 0032457777
0032451111 0032452222 0032453333

</Sample data>

And numbers is duplicated all over the file.

Each number is seprated by two spaces.

Sometimes, a large chunk of white space prefixed before the numbers.
But always the length of line is fixed to 151 characters.

Actually I want to create a report and in the report I want to list the number one below another like the below one.

<Sample output>
0032451111
0032452222
0032453333
0032457777
0032458888
0032459999
</Sample output>


Any help on this is appreciated.
# 4  
Old 08-07-2009
For CODE-tags that "Sample output" inside <> should be changed to the word "code".
# 5  
Old 08-11-2009
getting uniq values

Hi,

Now, using the below code:

code
grep ^0032 F*.txt | tr -s " " | tr -d "\n" | tr -s "\r" | sort -n | uniq
code

I am getting the following output
code
0032459999 0032458888 0032457777 0032451111 0032452222 0032453333 0032451111 0032458888 00324522220032451111 003245222200324511110032451111 0032452222 0032453333
code

sort and uniq commands are not working.

What should be done to get a uniq value from this.

Any help on this is appreciated.

Thanks,
tinku
# 6  
Old 08-11-2009
Code:
tr ' ' '\n' < file.txt | sort | uniq | grep -v "^$"

or better if you have some other numbers that are not starting with 0032
Code:
tr ' ' '\n' < file.txt | sort | uniq | grep "^0032"

or
Code:
grep -o "0032\([0-9]\)\+" file.txt | sort | uniq


Last edited by necroman08; 08-11-2009 at 12:43 PM..
# 7  
Old 08-12-2009
The last option is PERFECT. It gives exactly what i needed.

Tons of thanks.
 
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