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Hi Guys,
we have a shell script which basically query the Database which retrieves huge data and use the data with "egrep" .

Now there is some data which contains characters like "abc)" and the same is used like below :

"egrep (.+\|GDPRAB16\|GDPR/11702 96 abc)\|$ temp.txt"

now while executing the above command it gives following error:
egrep: syntax error

The reason is that search pattern contains ")" character.

Is there a way to overcome this ?

Thanks in advance,

Code:

egrep '(.+\|GDPRAB16\|GDPR/11702 96 abc\)\|$)' temp.txt

I have no idea if this will work but I think the regex has correct syntax now.

Sorry the actual command I am trying to execute is :

egrep '.+\|GDPRAB16\|GDPR/11702 96 STREET REAR)\|$ /tmp/TTV_FILE_3862.txt'

Guys anybody know hoe to handle bracket ")" inside egrep command ?

The ) brackets can be handled by using \( .*\). Usually regex will be handled like this only.

As Jim wrote in his example, you should let the name of the file you want to grep, out of the single quotation marks:

Code:

egrep '.+\|GDPRAB16\|GDPR/11702 96 STREET REAR)\|$' /tmp/TTV_FILE_3862.txt
                                                  ^
                                                here

Hi,
EVen if I do following as you suggested it gives the same problem :

<telus6@test5>egrep '.+\|GDPRAB16\|GDPR/11702 96 STREET REAR)\|$' /tmp/TTV_FILE_3862.txt
egrep: syntax error