devtakh's solution tells you if the file has less than three lines. Maybe this is all you need and I have misunderstood the situation, but I would use grep(1) to check for the occurrence each pattern, e.g.
Note that this will send a separate email for each missing pattern -- I don't know if that's what you want.
N.B. Something similar has been asked before: https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...ll-script.html
but I'm not convinced about the answer there -- it will work as long as all three patterns are on the same line, but maybe that's a good assumption for you.
Hi Gurus,
I have a file say for ex. file1 which has 3500 lines in it which are different account numbers and another file (file2) which has 230000 lines in it. I want to read all the lines in file1 and delete all those lines from file2 which has that same pattern as in file1. I am not quite... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have been searching online to find the answer for getting a list of files that do not match certain criteria but have been unsuccessful.
I have a directory that has many jpg files. What I need to do is get a list of the files that do not match both of the following patterns (I have... (21 Replies)
Hi,
I need to find records with a search string from a file. Search strings are provided in a file.
For eg. search_String.txt file is like below
chicago
mexico
newark
sanhose
and the file from where the records need to be fetched is given below
src_file:... (1 Reply)
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I'm a newbie at programming in Unix, and I seem to have a task that is greater than I can handle. Trying to learn awk by the way (but in the end, i just need something that works). My goal is to compare two files and output the difference between the two. I've been reading, and I think I... (5 Replies)
I need to filter the text in between two patterns and output that to a different file. Please help me how to do it.
Ex:
.............
<some random text>
.............
Pattern_1
<Few lines that need to be output to different file>
Pattern_2
................
...............
<more text in... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need help to find patterns that are common or matched in a specified column in multiple files.
File1.txt
ID1 555
ID23 8857
ID4 4454
ID05 555
File2.txt
ID74 4454
ID96 555
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I need help to find matched patterns in 30 files residing in a folder simultaneously. All these files only contain 1 column. For example,
File1
Gr_1
st-e34ss-11dd
bt-wwd-fewq
pt-wq02-ddpk
pw-xsw17-aqpp
Gr_2
srq-wy09-yyd9
sqq-fdfs-ffs9
Gr_3
etas-qqa-dfw
ddw-ppls-qqw... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to extract some patterns from a line. The input file is space delimited and i could not use column to get value after "IN" or "OUT" patterns as there could be multiple white spaces before the next digits that i need to print in the output file . I need to print 3 patterns in a... (3 Replies)
Hello.
For a given folder, I want to select any files find $PATH1 -f \( -name "*" but omit any files like pattern name ! -iname "*.jpg" ! -iname "*.xsession*" ..... \) and also omit any subfolder like pattern name -type d \( -name "/etc/gconf/gconf.*" -o -name "*cache*" -o -name "*Cache*" -o... (2 Replies)
I need to find all files and folders containing keyword from the topmost directory deep down the tree but omitting all references to keyword in web-search logs and entries, i.e. excluding search and browsing history made using web-browser1, web-browser2, web-browser3, (bypassing all entries of the... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines (with newlines excluded) that match the pattern, a regular expression as
defined in regexp(6). Normally, each line matching the pattern is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output.
The options are
-c Print only a count of matching lines.
-h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
-i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form.
-l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
-L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
-n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
-s Produce no output, but return status.
-v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
argument.)
Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
single quotes '...'.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/grep.c
SEE ALSO ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(6)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.
GREP(1)