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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Matching multiples of a single character using sed and awk Post 302231327 by royalibrahim on Tuesday 2nd of September 2008 06:10:14 AM
Old 09-02-2008
Matching multiples of a single character using sed and awk

Hi,

I have a file 'imei_01.txt' having the following contents:

$ cat imei_01.txt
a123456
bbr22135
yet223

where I want to check whether the expression 'first single alphabet followed by 6 digits' is present in the file (here it is the first record 'a123456')

I am using the following script, but it does not give output
Code:
sed '/[0-9]\{6\}/p' imei_01.txt

awk '/[a-z][0-9]\{6\}/ {print}' imei_01.txt

 

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