I want to search a file for a string and then if the string is found I need the line that the string is on - but also the previous two lines from the file (that the pattern will not be found in)
This is on solaris
Can you help? (2 Replies)
hi
I am doing a task that is i have to search for multiple pattern from a file's 9 th column and then redirect it to a new file
awk -F, 'BEGIN {OSF=","} { if ($9 == "OTF") print $0}' test1.tsv > test.tsv
and the patterns are OST. ODI,MIN LIKE OTF
Bit not getting the desired output... (11 Replies)
I've got a semicolon delimited file. I would like to search for fields that match a pattern, and not hardcoded eg "mth".
*th=something
If the delimited field fulfills this condition, eg. mth=value
I would like to print out both key and value for some number comparison.
eg. if value > "12"... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I want to search for patterns (from a file) in a file and print the line matching the patterns and the line before it.
I have to search for 100s of patterns from a file.
Any help with AWK or Sed.
Thanks! (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a file which is having below type of data,
Jul 19 2011 | 123456
Jul 19 2011 | 123456
Jul 20 2011 | 123456
Jul 20 2011 | 123456
Here I wanted to grep for date pattern as below, so that it should only grep "Jul 20" OR "Jul ... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I need to extract all the content between two strings stored in two variables "startstring" and "endstring"
startstring=hello
enstring=world
#notworking
awk '/$startstring/, $NF ~ /$endstring/ ' file > file2
The above code is not working with variables. It works when actual string... (2 Replies)
Hello Guyz
I have been following this forum for a while and the solutions provided are super useful. I currently have a scenario where i need to search for a pattern and start searching by keeping the first pattern as a baseline
ABC
DEF
LMN
EFG
HIJ
LMN
OPQ
In the above text i need to... (8 Replies)
I am trying to search a file for a patterns ERR- in a file and return a count for each of the error reported
Input file is a free flowing file without any format
example of output
ERR-00001=5
....
ERR-01010=10
.....
ERR-99999=10 (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have two files file1.txt and file2.txt. Please see the attachments.
In file2.txt (which actually is a diff output between two versions of file1.txt.), I extract the pattern corresponding to 1172c1172. Now ,In file1.txt I have to search for this pattern 1172c1172 and if found, I have to... (9 Replies)
I have this fileA
TEST FILE ABC
this file contains ABC;
TEST FILE DGHT this file contains DGHT;
TEST FILE 123
this file contains ABC,
this file contains DEF,
this file contains XYZ,
this file contains KLM
;
I want to have a fileZ that has only (begin search pattern for will be... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vbabz
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines (with newlines excluded) that match the pattern, a regular expression as
defined in regexp(6). Normally, each line matching the pattern is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output.
The options are
-c Print only a count of matching lines.
-h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
-i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form.
-l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
-L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
-n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
-s Produce no output, but return status.
-v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
argument.)
Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
single quotes '...'.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/grep.c
SEE ALSO ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(6)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.
GREP(1)