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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting search for words with capital leters Post 302182357 by era on Sunday 6th of April 2008 05:12:31 AM
Old 04-06-2008
[^ ] means any character which is not whitespace, and * means zero to infinity of those (remember regular expressions are usually greedy, so it will match as many as it can). If you grep for just [A-Z] then it will only print the actual uppercase characters; extending the regular expression to cover any adjacent non-whitespace characters on both sides should get what you were looking for.
 

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look(1) 							   User Commands							   look(1)

NAME
look - find words in the system dictionary or lines in a sorted list SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/look [-d] [-f] [-tc] string [filename] DESCRIPTION
The look command consults a sorted filename and prints all lines that begin with string. If no filename is specified, look uses /usr/share/lib/dict/words with collating sequence -df. look limits the length of a word to search for to 256 characters. OPTIONS
-d Dictionary order. Only letters, digits, TAB and SPACE characters are used in comparisons. -f Fold case. Upper case letters are not distinguished from lower case in comparisons. -tc Set termination character. All characters to the right of c in string are ignored. FILES
/usr/share/lib/dict/words spelling list ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
grep(1), sort(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 29 Mar 1994 look(1)
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