05-03-2010
Problem with sed
Hi Gurus
I am writing a script to capture conents of a file starting from a regular expression till end of the file. When I execute sed -n '/2010/,$p' filename
I can get correct output. Now I wanted date part so I did this
sed -n '/2010\/04\/27/,$p' filename
Everything is fine till here. But as soon as I try to put the date in variable and use with sed it doest work. The date variable will not have characters escaped. My question is how can I put date in a variable and use sed to capture content of file starting from the date till end of the file
for example var1=2010/04/27
now i want to print content of my file starting $var1 till end of file ..please help
Thanks in advance
perl
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REGEXP(6) Games Manual REGEXP(6)
NAME
regexp - regular expression notation
DESCRIPTION
A regular expression specifies a set of strings of characters. A member of this set of strings is said to be matched by the regular
expression. In many applications a delimiter character, commonly bounds a regular expression. In the following specification for regular
expressions the word `character' means any character (rune) but newline.
The syntax for a regular expression e0 is
e3: literal | charclass | '.' | '^' | '$' | '(' e0 ')'
e2: e3
| e2 REP
REP: '*' | '+' | '?'
e1: e2
| e1 e2
e0: e1
| e0 '|' e1
A literal is any non-metacharacter, or a metacharacter (one of .*+?[]()|^$), or the delimiter preceded by
A charclass is a nonempty string s bracketed [s] (or [^s]); it matches any character in (or not in) s. A negated character class never
matches newline. A substring a-b, with a and b in ascending order, stands for the inclusive range of characters between a and b. In s,
the metacharacters an initial and the regular expression delimiter must be preceded by a other metacharacters have no special meaning and
may appear unescaped.
A matches any character.
A matches the beginning of a line; matches the end of the line.
The REP operators match zero or more (*), one or more (+), zero or one (?), instances respectively of the preceding regular expression e2.
A concatenated regular expression, e1e2, matches a match to e1 followed by a match to e2.
An alternative regular expression, e0|e1, matches either a match to e0 or a match to e1.
A match to any part of a regular expression extends as far as possible without preventing a match to the remainder of the regular expres-
sion.
SEE ALSO
awk(1), ed(1), sam(1), sed(1), regexp(2)
REGEXP(6)