10-22-2008
using sed or grep to find exact match of text
Hi,
Can anyone help me with the text editing I need here. I have a file that contains the following lines for example: (line numbers are for illustration only)
1 Hello world fantasy.
2 Hello worldfuntastic.
3 Hello world wonderful.
I would like to get all those lines of text that contains the word "world" without anything after it. Meaning, I would like to have lines 1 and 3, line 2 should not be included because it contains "worldfuntastic", no space between.
1 Hello world fantasy.
3 Hello world wonderful
The problem is, there are some lines that use TAB to separate words like line 3. When I use grep "world " <filename>, this will get all lines of text with the word "world" and space after it but not those with TAB, i.e. the results would only be:
1 Hello world fantasy
line 3 is not included because "world" and "wonderful" are separated by TAB. Any suggestions, please?
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setmaillist(1) General Commands Manual setmaillist(1)
NAME
setmaillist - create a binary mailing list
SYNOPSIS
setmaillist bin tmp
DESCRIPTION
setmaillist reads a mailing list from its standard input.
setmaillist writes the mailing list in a binary format to tmp; it then moves tmp to bin. tmp and bin must be on the same filesystem.
If there is a problem creating tmp, setmaillist complains and leaves bin alone.
The binary mailing list format is portable across machines.
setmaillist always creates bin world-readable.
MAILING LIST FORMAT
The mailing list read by setmaillist is a series of lines. NUL bytes are not allowed.
If a line begins with a dot or slash, setmaillist takes the entire line as an include file name.
If a line begins with an ampersand, setmaillist takes the rest of the line as a recipient address. If a line begins with a letter or num-
ber, setmaillist takes the entire line as a recipient address. Each recipient address must include a fully qualified domain name. Recipi-
ent addresses longer than 800 bytes are not allowed.
setmaillist ignores blank lines and lines beginning with #. It also ignores spaces and tabs at the ends of lines.
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SEE ALSO
setforward(1), newinclude(1), printmaillist(1)
setmaillist(1)