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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grepping word based on white space..... Post 302556913 by sarbjit on Tuesday 20th of September 2011 04:24:14 AM
Old 09-20-2011
Error Grepping word based on white space.....

Hi,

I am having a text file with following contents:

[space][space][space]word
[space][space][space][space][space]word

I want to grep the first line i.e. word that is being preceded with three space characters.

So i tried
Code:
sed -n '/ {3}/p' filename
grep " {3}" filename

But is not returning any result. If i don't use {}, then it returns both the patterns.

Last edited by Scott; 09-20-2011 at 05:37 AM.. Reason: .
 

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STORE(9)						   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual						  STORE(9)

NAME
store, subyte, suswintr, suword -- store data to user-space SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/systm.h> int subyte(void *base, int byte); int suword(void *base, long word); int suword16(void *base, int word); int suword32(void *base, int32_t word); int suword64(void *base, int64_t word); #include <sys/resourcevar.h> int suswintr(void *base, int word); DESCRIPTION
The store functions are designed to copy small amounts of data to user-space. The store routines provide the following functionality: subyte() Stores a byte of data to the user-space address base. suword() Stores a word of data to the user-space address base. suword16() Stores 16 bits of of data to the user-space address base. suword32() Stores 32 bits of of data to the user-space address base. suword64() Stores 64 bits of of data to the user-space address base. suswintr() Stores a short word of data to the user-space address base. This function is safe to call during an interrupt context. RETURN VALUES
The store functions return 0 on success or -1 on failure. SEE ALSO
copy(9), fetch(9) BSD
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