Thanks scott. In java regexps, the | means OR and has to be escaped, so I had assumed it has to be escaped in grep regexps too. It seems that's not the case. I had tried something similar with grep -v as well, but I was escaping the pipe. This works great. Thanks again.
Hi guys,
does anyone know how to test for a regular expression - i want to include it in a script to make sure the variable is a regexp
cheers (1 Reply)
I have 2 files called stuff-egress-filter and stuff-ingress filter. There are also files called something like stuff-egress-F/0
I want to match the first two... I tried (i realize there is no filename... I'm piping this from the ls command)
grep stuff-*-filter
Finds nothing. If I... (18 Replies)
Hello,
I have the output of ls -l stored in a text file called "files.txt".
-rwx------ 1 user1 dev 130 Sep 21 16:14 sc1.sh
-rwxr----- 1 user1 dev 10328 Sep 29 20:11 sc10.sh
-rwxr----- 1 user1 dev 9984 Sep 30 15:33 sc11.sh
-rwxr----- 1 user1 dev ... (2 Replies)
Good Day,
Im new to scripting especially awk and sed. I just would like to ask help from you guys about a sed command that prints the line immediately after a regexp, but not the line containing the regexp.
sed -n '/regexp/{n;p;}' filename
What if my regexp is 3 word or a sentence. Im... (3 Replies)
Consider the following code:
grep -o -e '^STEAM_::\d+$' workfile3.tmp
A sample format of a valid string for the regexp would be:
STEAM_0:1:12345678
Here is an example line from the workfile3.tmp file:
465:L 01/02/2012 - 00:05:33: "Spartan1-1-7<8><STEAM_0:1:47539638><>" connected
No... (2 Replies)
I have test string value , something like the one below
str='KUAMRJIT|GHOSH'
If I type
echo $str | grep -o -e '\|+'
it doesnt give me anything .
But on the contrary
echo $str | grep -o -e '|'
display the only one pipe character(|) thats there in the string above .
The way I understood Unix... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
I am trying to filter out those lines that contain a "non-alpha" character.
An example of my input is the following:
zygnematales grb
zygocactus grb
zygocactus_truncatus plt
zygodactyl_foot prt
zygoma prt
zygomatic prt
zygomatic_arch prt
zygomatic_bone ... (2 Replies)
I would like to extract "1333 Fairlane" given the below text.
The word "Building:" is always present. The wording between Building and the beginning of the address can be almost anything. It appears the the hyphen is there most of the time.
Campus: Fairlane Business Park
Building:... (9 Replies)
XZGREP(1) XZ Utils XZGREP(1)NAME
xzgrep - search compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
xzgrep [grep_options] [-e] pattern file...
xzegrep ...
xzfgrep ...
lzgrep ...
lzegrep ...
lzfgrep ...
DESCRIPTION
xzgrep invokes grep(1) on files which may be either uncompressed or compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), or bzip2(1). All options
specified are passed directly to grep(1).
If no file is specified, then standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep(1). When reading from standard input, gzip(1)
and bzip2(1) compressed files are not supported.
If xzgrep is invoked as xzegrep or xzfgrep then egrep(1) or fgrep(1) is used instead of grep(1). The same applies to names lzgrep, lze-
grep, and lzfgrep, which are provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.
ENVIRONMENT
GREP If the GREP environment variable is set, xzgrep uses it instead of grep(1), egrep(1), or fgrep(1).
SEE ALSO grep(1), xz(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), zgrep(1)Tukaani 2010-09-27 XZGREP(1)