09-02-2011
Is it possible to grep a certain amount of characters?
I have a file similar to the following
filler filler filler
car 6 mazda
filler filler filler filler
car civic honda
car rav 4 toyota
filler filler
If i do a "grep -i car file.txt" the output would be
car 6 mazda
car civic honda
car rav 4 toyota
however, i want to have the first 9 characters of each line. I know that sort has a similar feature with +n, but I was wondering if i can do something similar to just get the following output:
car 6
car civic
car rav 4
I played with the cut command, the the field delimiter doesn't seem to work (since rav 4 contains a space).
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ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)
NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)
ZGREP(1)