I thought you wanted that extra character. Well all you have to do is tweak the regular expression:
thank you thank you thank you..please explain to me the regular expression..i have been trying to get hold of this since long..but have only managed to bang my head
i think grep can only find char in files matching a pattern without any wildcards like ? correct? It works with * but not ?.
how can i write a small c program to find words in a file, like a list, that matches a pattern like ma?y, b??con, etc if grep doesn't understand ? in a pattern search. if... (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
Can you help with the shell script:
I would like to search a fixed width pattern from a file
say for each line from a fixed position and lenght it has to return all rows from the file.
Example:
To search the third column for "def" it has to return 1 and 4th rows only
... (2 Replies)
I have a problem in searching a specific pattern in c files.
My requirement:
I have to find all the division operator in all cfiles.
The problem is, the multi line comments and single line comments will also have forward slash in it.
Even after avoiding these comments also, if both... (6 Replies)
can anybode tell me ? I want to search for a pattern present in a whole directory and subdirectories's files containg " crat"
I tried
grep -r "crat" */* ;
is it right ? (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Please can someone assist in the script I have made that searches a pattern in a file and delete the whole line containing the pattern.
#!bin/sh
# The pattern that user want to add to the files
echo "Enter the pattern of the redirect"
read value
# check if the user has... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need small help from you people.
In a directory there are around 150 odd files and few them contain the word "TRACK" and few are not.
How can I find out the the list of those files which doesn't contain the word "TRACK"?
Thanks,
Siba (4 Replies)
in my file i have somthing likre
kpk_12
kpk_1
kpk_1.tcl
kpk_3.tcl
kpk
kpk
kpk
i want search only kpk i am using this cmd /kpk ...results it is showing all . any cmd is ther other then this to search exactword in this example kpk it shoulsnot show kpk_* etc
Thanks in Advance
... (2 Replies)
Hi there,
Looking forward to your advice for the below:
I have a file which contains 2 paragraphs related to a particular pattern. I have to search for those paragraphs from a log file and then print a particular line from those paragraphs.
Sample:
I have one file with the fixed... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: danish0909
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
re_comp
REGEX(3) Library Functions Manual REGEX(3)NAME
re_comp, re_exec - regular expression handler
SYNOPSIS
char *re_comp(s)
char *s;
re_exec(s)
char *s;
DESCRIPTION
Re_comp compiles a string into an internal form suitable for pattern matching. Re_exec checks the argument string against the last string
passed to re_comp.
Re_comp returns 0 if the string s was compiled successfully; otherwise a string containing an error message is returned. If re_comp is
passed 0 or a null string, it returns without changing the currently compiled regular expression.
Re_exec returns 1 if the string s matches the last compiled regular expression, 0 if the string s failed to match the last compiled regular
expression, and -1 if the compiled regular expression was invalid (indicating an internal error).
The strings passed to both re_comp and re_exec may have trailing or embedded newline characters; they are terminated by nulls. The regular
expressions recognized are described in the manual entry for ed(1), given the above difference.
SEE ALSO ed(1), ex(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Re_exec returns -1 for an internal error.
Re_comp returns one of the following strings if an error occurs:
No previous regular expression,
Regular expression too long,
unmatched (,
missing ],
too many () pairs,
unmatched ).
3rd Berkeley Distribution May 15, 1985 REGEX(3)