... why it only works with egrep and not the normal grep
...
That's because of that pesky "+" character, which means "one or more occurrence" and is an extended regex and hence supported by egrep (extended grep). Check the man page for egrep in your system.
having a look on the regex site I saw that characters can be search using hex values
http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html
So I try to use it whith grep to find a è on a string (octal Decimal Hexa : 350 232 E8) but it doesn't work
E.g.
/usr/bin/echo '\0350' | egrep '\xE8'
... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to do something with grep, but for some reason I just can't get it to to work.
I am looking for find a match in the second field, the length must be 10 characters and end with 'abc'.
The file is in this format:
<int><tab><field2>
I've tried a few patterns, some work,... (2 Replies)
Hello everybody,
I'd like to know how is it I should write a regex in unix to match a string not followed by another string (anywhere in the line).
To be more specific, I want to find lines where "drop table" is found, but not followed anywhere in the line by the character "&".
For... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm a beginner with linux, regex, grep, etc
I am trying to get data out of a file that has about 13,000 lines in this format
name - location
I want to grep all the names out to one file and the locations to another so I can put them into a spreadsheet.
Some have hyphenated... (14 Replies)
basically i have a csv i parse through. a user will supply me with a san switch he/she wants more info about... say the name is "pnj-sansw124"
now i can grep out every connection to that switch w/o issue because this sans switch pnj-sansw124 has multiple slots 1-10. and it looks like this in the... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I'm working on unix with grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1. I'm going through some of the newer regex syntax using Regular Expression Reference - Advanced Syntax a guide.
ls -aLl /bin | grep "\(x\)"
Which works, just highlights 'x' where ever, when ever.
I'm trying to to get (?:) to work but... (4 Replies)
Hi to you all,
I'm just struggling with a regex problem and I'm pretty sure that I'm missing sth obvious... :confused:
I need a regex to feed my grep in order to find lines that contain one string but not the other.
Here's the data example:
2015-04-08 19:04:55,926|xxxxxxxxxx| ... (11 Replies)
Hello guys,
Here i am writing a script in bash to check for a valid URL from a file using regex
This is my input file
http://www.yahoo.commmmmm
http://www.google.com
https://www.gooogle.co
www.test6.co.in
www.gmail.com
www.google.co
htt://www.money.com
http://eeeess.google.com... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a grep command to match the following pattern from a file:
<EGS>10234567<EGS>
I used this following command to do this:
grep -E '^<EGS>{8}<EGS>' test.txt
In output I got:
<EGS>10234567<EGS>
Till now it work, but if I add something at the end of the line... (2 Replies)
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fmt
fmt(1) General Commands Manual fmt(1)NAME
fmt - format text
SYNOPSIS
width] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
The command is a simple text formatter that fills and joins lines to produce output lines of (up to) the number of characters specified in
the width option. The default width is 72. concatenates the arguments. If none are given, formats text from the standard input.
Blank lines are preserved in the output, as is the spacing between words. does not fill lines beginning with a period for compatibility
with Nor does it fill lines starting with
Indentation is preserved in the output and input lines with differing indentation are not joined (unless is used).
can also be used as an in-line text filter for the command:
reformats the text between the cursor location and the end of the paragraph.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Crown margin mode.
Preserve the indentation of the first two lines within a paragraph and align the left margin of each subsequent line with that
of the second line. This is useful for tagged paragraphs.
Split lines only.
Do not join short lines to form longer ones. This prevents sample lines of code, and other such "formatted" text, from being
unduly combined.
Fill output lines to up to
width columns.
WARNINGS
The width option is acceptable for BSD compatibility, but it may go away in future releases.
SEE ALSO nroff(1), vi(1).
fmt(1)