The following approach leverages awk's multiline record abilities (assumes each article block is delimited by at least one blank line) and shamelessly pilfers agama's solution.
Anyone is well-versed to use egrep to search a file for a line containing both:
1) AAA
2) $
I am having problem escaping the dollar sign when using egrep in conjunction with satisfying AAA as well.
E.g. Text file
Line 1 AAA
Line 2 $$$
Line 3 AAA BBB $
Line 4 $$$ BBB AA
will return me... (2 Replies)
I would like to write a script which will read a file containing a list of filenames of the format as shown below :
/usr/local/packages/runcmdlinetool
/home/john.doe/sdfsdf/sdfsdfsd/sdfsdf/sdfsdfTemplates.xml
/usr/local/bin/gtar... (4 Replies)
I am trying to do some thing like this ..
In a file , if pattern found insert new pattern at the begining of the line containing the pattern.
example:
in a file I have this.
gtrow0unit1/gctunit_crrownorth_stage5_outnet_feedthru_pin
if i find feedthru_pin want to insert !! at the... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I need to extract <APPNUMBER> tag alone, if the <college> haas IIT Chennai value. college tag value will have spaces embedded. Those spaces should not be suppresses.
My Source file
<Record><sno>1</sno><empid>E0001</empid><name>Rejsh suderam</name><college>IIT ... (3 Replies)
Hi
I want to search for a specific pattern in file
Say
ABC;HELLO_UNIX_WORLD;PQR
ABC;HELLO_UNIX_WORLD_IS_NOT_ENOUGH;XYZ
ABC;HELLO_UNIX_FORUM;LMN
Pattern to search is : "HELLO_UNIX_*****" and not "HELLO_UNIX_***_***_"
I mean after "HELLO_UNIX" there can only be one word.In this case... (2 Replies)
Right now, my code is:
s/Secondary Ins./Secondary Ins.\
1/g
It's adding a 1 as soon as it finds Secondary Ins.
Primary Ins.: MEDICARE B DMERC Secondary Ins.
1: CONTINENTAL LIFE INS
What I really want to achieve is having a 1 added on the next line that contain "Secondary Ins." It... (4 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have the following contents in a text file (as seen when viewed using vim):
one two three ^M
four five six ^M
seven
eight
nine ^M
ten eleven twelve ^M
(That is just a small portion of the file)
How can I obtain the following result?
one two three ^M
four five six ^M
seven... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am a newbie here. I have this requirement to find a file based on a pattern then return the filename if found.
I created a script based on online tutorials. Though, I am stuck & really appreciate if anyone can have a quick look & point me to the right direction?
#Script starts... (10 Replies)
Hi
I have a set of input strings in a pattern as given below
string1 string2 string3 string4 string5
I need to search this sequence of strings from a file in such a way that the first two strings (string1 and string2) and last two strings (string4 and string5) should match with the... (8 Replies)
In the bash below I am searching the filevirus-scan.log for the Infected files: 0 line (in bold) and each line for OK.
If both of these are true then the function execute is automatically called and processing starts. If both these conditions are not meet then the line in the
file is sent to the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
egrep
egrep(1)egrep(1)NAME
egrep - search a file for a pattern using full regular expressions
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/egrep [-bchilnsv] [-e pattern_list] [-f file] [strings] [file...]
/usr/xpg4/bin/egrep [-bchilnsvx] [-e pattern_list] [-f file] [strings] [file...]
The egrep (expression grep) utility searches files for a pattern of characters and prints all lines that contain that pattern. egrep uses
full regular expressions (expressions that have string values that use the full set of alphanumeric and special characters) to match the
patterns. It uses a fast deterministic algorithm that sometimes needs exponential space.
If no files are specified, egrep assumes standard input. Normally, each line found is copied to the standard output. The file name is
printed before each line found if there is more than one input file.
/usr/bin/egrep
The /usr/bin/egrep utility accepts full regular expressions as described on the regexp(5) manual page, except for ( and ), ( and ), {
and }, < and >, and
, and with the addition of:
1. A full regular expression followed by + that matches one or more occurrences of the full regular expression.
2. A full regular expression followed by ? that matches 0 or 1 occurrences of the full regular expression.
3. Full regular expressions separated by | or by a NEWLINE that match strings that are matched by any of the expressions.
4. A full regular expression that can be enclosed in parentheses ()for grouping.
Be careful using the characters $, *, [, ^, |, (, ), and in full regular expression, because they are also meaningful to the shell. It is
safest to enclose the entire full regular expression in single quotes '... '.
The order of precedence of operators is [], then *?+, then concatenation, then | and NEWLINE.
/usr/xpg4/bin/egrep
The /usr/xpg4/bin/egrep utility uses the regular expressions described in the EXTENDED REGULAR EXPRESSIONS section of the regex(5) manual
page.
The following options are supported for both /usr/bin/egrep and /usr/xpg4/bin/egrep:
-b Precede each line by the block number on which it was found. This can be useful in locating block numbers by context (first
block is 0).
-c Print only a count of the lines that contain the pattern.
-e pattern_list Search for a pattern_list (full regular expression that begins with a -).
-f file Take the list of full regular expressions from file.
-h Suppress printing of filenames when searching multiple files.
-i Ignore upper/lower case distinction during comparisons.
-l Print the names of files with matching lines once, separated by NEWLINEs. Does not repeat the names of files when the pat-
tern is found more than once.
-n Precede each line by its line number in the file (first line is 1).
-s Work silently, that is, display nothing except error messages. This is useful for checking the error status.
-v Print all lines except those that contain the pattern.
/usr/xpg4/bin/egrep
The following option is supported for /usr/xpg4/bin/egrep only:
-x Consider only input lines that use all characters in the line to match an entire fixed string or regular expression to be matching
lines.
The following operands are supported:
file A path name of a file to be searched for the patterns. If no file operands are specified, the standard input is used.
/usr/bin/egrep
pattern Specify a pattern to be used during the search for input.
/usr/xpg4/bin/egrep
pattern Specify one or more patterns to be used during the search for input. This operand is treated as if it were specified as
-epattern_list.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of egrep when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of egrep: LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
The following exit values are returned:
0 If any matches are found.
1 If no matches are found.
2 For syntax errors or inaccessible files (even if matches were found).
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
/usr/bin/egrep
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Not Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
/usr/xpg4/bin/egrep
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWxcu4 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
fgrep(1), grep(1), sed(1), sh(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), regex(5), regexp(5), XPG4(5)
Ideally there should be only one grep command, but there is not a single algorithm that spans a wide enough range of space-time tradeoffs.
Lines are limited only by the size of the available virtual memory.
/usr/xpg4/bin/egrep
The /usr/xpg4/bin/egrep utility is identical to /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -E (see grep(1)). Portable applications should use /usr/xpg4/bin/grep
-E.
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