I think you have to use perl or awk:
The output in order is : the line that matched, the text that matched the entire regexp, the first (outermost) group, the second, group, the third group, (newline).
I am attempting to convert rewrite rules to Nginx, and since due to the mass amount of rewrites we must convert, I've been trying to write a script to help me on a specific part, easily.
So far I have this:
rewrite ^action/static/(+)/$ staticPage.php?pg=$1&%$query_string;
What I want done... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I looking to use grep to return a string with exactly n matches.
I'm building off this:
ls -aLl /bin | grep '^.\{9\}x' | tr -s ' '
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 632816 Nov 25 2008 vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 632816 Nov 25 2008 view
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16008 May 25 2008... (7 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)
i dun seems to be able to grep the arguments i want.
eg. book.txt with description inside.
ABC:efg:5:6
HHH:JJJ:6:7
i want the user to input the book title and author they want. so when the user enters book title ABC and book author efg, they print out exact match of ABC:efg:5:6. Caps do... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm attempting to rename some files that have spaces in them. Without linking sed commands together is it possible to replace the first three "." to " ".
File.name.is.long.ext -> File name is long.ext
I can get the desired effect with
echo "File.name.is.long.ext" | sed 's/\./ /g;s/... (5 Replies)
I have a requirement - replace specified positions in a string with a character. I found perl regex useful for this approach. however, I am facing the following issue.
The target file 'temp' contains -
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The goal is to convert... (5 Replies)
Hello,
Although I have found similar questions, I could not find
advice that could help with my problem. The issue:
I am trying to replace all occurrences of a regex, but
I cannot make the regex groups work together.
This is a simple input test file:
The Vedanta Philosophy... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I try to script something (bash-script) and can not find a way to get and store a match into a variable from a line in a file. grep isn't useful as the matches are not returned - just colored. I can't get 'expr' to work for me. Is it necessary to use a perl-script with regex instead?
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Good day,
I have a list of regular expressions in file1. For each match in file2, print the containing line and the line after.
file1:
file2:
Output:
I can match a regex and print the line and line after
awk '{lines = $0} /Macrosiphum_rosae/ {print lines ; print lines } '
... (1 Reply)
I am having trouble with regex capturing groups, For Ex :
I am having a file with
ABC CDLF SFSDFK PRIMARY INDEX(XYZ,DEF,GHI);
XYZ FLJ SDFKLD; PRIMARY INDEX(ABC);
BHI SDKFLFLSFD PRIMARY INDEX (QWE , RTY , LHJ);
My output should be :
ABC XYZ,DEF,GHI
XYZ ABC
BHI ... (10 Replies)