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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Print selected lines from file in order Post 302544715 by rosslm on Thursday 4th of August 2011 05:57:51 PM
Old 08-04-2011
MySQL

Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
Code:
grep -E 'x|y'

Thanks for reply, I tried your suggestion

Code:
grep -E 'x|y' xyz.log

I am still only getting 'x' printed, no 'y'

---------- Post updated at 07:57 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:41 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
Code:
grep -E 'x|y'

Ignore the previous, it worked fine. Case was causing the problem.

Thanks very much for response.Smilie

Last edited by radoulov; 08-04-2011 at 08:44 PM.. Reason: Code tags.
 

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grep-changelog(1)					      General Commands Manual						 grep-changelog(1)

NAME
grep-changelog - print ChangeLog entries matching criteria SYNOPSIS
grep-changelog [options] [CHANGELOG...] DESCRIPTION
grep-changelog searches the named CHANGELOGs (by default files matching the regular expressions ChangeLog and ChangeLog.[0-9]+) for entries matching the specified criteria. At least one option or file must be specified. This program is distributed with GNU Emacs. OPTIONS
The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for option names. --author=AUTHOR Print entries whose author matches regular expression AUTHOR. --text=TEXT Print entries whose text matches regular expression TEXT. --exclude=TEXT Exclude entries matching regular expression TEXT. --from-date=YYYY-MM-DD Only consider entries made on or after the given date. ChangeLog date entries not in the "YYYY-MM-DD" format are never matched. --to-date=YYYY-MM-DD Only consider entries made on or before the given date. --rcs-log Print output in a format suitable for RCS log entries. This format removes author lines, leading spaces, and file names. --with-date In RCS log format, print short dates. --reverse Show matches in reverse order. --version Display version information. --help Display basic usage information. COPYING
Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation. grep-changelog(1)
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