05-18-2009
grep second word in a file
How do I match second word and then print that line to output
For eg: My file has following text and I want to check if second word is n then I want to print entire line .
xytxti8naclip y
xytxt32bpsimple y
xytxt32bpna n
xytxti16nae y
xysmps32bpp031_bst n
xyslm32simple y
Can any one help here ?
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WC(1) User Commands WC(1)
NAME
wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
DESCRIPTION
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. A word is a non-zero-length
sequence of characters delimited by white space.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum
line length.
-c, --bytes
print the byte counts
-m, --chars
print the character counts
-l, --lines
print the newline counts
--files0-from=F
read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
-L, --max-line-length
print the maximum display width
-w, --words
print the word counts
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
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