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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to grep at nth position? Post 302189280 by sumitc on Friday 25th of April 2008 10:56:01 AM
Old 04-25-2008
How to grep at nth position?

Suppose the data is as follows:

123456789A123456
123456789A123456
123456789C123456
123456789B123456
123456789A123456

I want to grep only those records containing "A" command can be:
grep "^.........A" file_name

But if data string is very long, suppose A occurs at 690th position.
Its doesn't look good giving 690 dots and then "A"....I am sure there must be some alternative.

Please help!

-Sumit
 

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ZGREP(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep -- print lines matching a pattern in gzip-compressed files SYNOPSIS
zgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...] zegrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] zfgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] DESCRIPTION
zgrep runs grep(1) on files or stdin, if no files argument is given, after decompressing them with zcat(1). The grep-flags and pattern arguments are passed on to grep(1). If an -e flag is found in the grep-flags, zgrep will not look for a pattern argument. zegrep calls egrep(1), while zfgrep calls fgrep(1). EXIT STATUS
In case of missing arguments or missing pattern, 1 will be returned, otherwise 0. SEE ALSO
egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1), gzip(1), zcat(1) AUTHORS
Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> BSD
December 28, 2003 BSD
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