If you want to get what is exactly in a line of text
This means: precisely at the start of the line (^) find the string "Mike Smith" and "$" means that the end of the line is where the "$" is. No extra spaces or tabs.
Hi
I have a file with data arranged into columns. The first column is the chromosome name.
When I use grep to subset only rows with chr1, I get chr1 but also chr10, chr11,..
How do I get only rows with chr1?
grep chr1 filein > fileout
head fileout
chr1 59757841
chr11 108258691 ... (2 Replies)
I am attempting to convert rewrite rules to Nginx, and since due to the mass amount of rewrites we must convert, I've been trying to write a script to help me on a specific part, easily.
So far I have this:
rewrite ^action/static/(+)/$ staticPage.php?pg=$1&%$query_string;
What I want done... (5 Replies)
I’m trying to modify someone perl script to fix a bug. The piece of code checks that the zone name you want to add is unique. However, when the code runs, it finds a partial match using grep, and decides it already exists, so the “create” command exits.
$cstatus = `${ZADM} list -vic | grep... (3 Replies)
I need some help. I have a file (all.txt) whereby I want to substitute using sed/awk all lines that matches an expression with another line with different expression i.e
subtitute expression,
database_id: filename;
WITH
database_id: PY;
There are many occurrences of the expression... (4 Replies)
hi everyone
suppose we have two scenario
echo ABCD | grep \{4\}
DATE
echo SYSDATE | grep \{4\}
SYSDATE
i want to match the string of four length only please help (5 Replies)
To give you some context of my issue the following is some sample dummy data. The field delimiter is "<-->". The 4th field is going to be tags for my notes. The tags should always be unique and sorted alphabetically.
1<-->01/20/12<-->01/20/12<-->1st note<-->1st note<-NL->2 lines... (4 Replies)
QUESTION1:
How do you grep only an exact string. I am using Solaris10 and do not have any GNU products installed.
Contents of car.txt
CAR1_KEY0
CAR1_KEY1
CAR2_KEY0
CAR2_KEY1
CAR1_KEY10
CURRENT COMMAND LINE: WHERE VARIABLE CAR_NUMBER=1 AND KEY_NUMBER=1
grep... (1 Reply)
Im stumped on this one. Id like to echo into a .txt file all names for an xml feed in a huge folder. Can that be done?? Id need to echo <name>This name</name> in client.xml files.
$path="/mnt/windows/path"
echo 'recording names'
cd "$path"
for names in $path
than Im stuck on... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have two files, chap.txt and complex.txt.
chap.txt looks like this:
a
d
l
m
r
k
complex.txt looks like this:
a c d e l m n j
a d l p q r
c p r m
......... (7 Replies)
Dear All,
Here is my input
TAACGCACTTGCGGCCCCGGGATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATGGATT
NAGAGGGACGGCCGGGGGCATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGATTTC
NGGGTTTTAAGCAGGAGGTGTCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGATTT
NTGGAACCTGGCGCTAGACCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATGGATTTTTG
ATACTTACCTGGCAGGGGAGATACCATGATCAATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jacobs.smith
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LEARN ABOUT V7
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep, egrep, fgrep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ] ... expression [ file ] ...
egrep [ option ] ... [ expression ] [ file ] ...
fgrep [ option ] ... [ strings ] [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Commands of the grep family search the input files (standard input default) for lines matching a pattern. Normally, each line found is
copied to the standard output; unless the -h flag is used, the file name is shown if there is more than one input file.
Grep patterns are limited regular expressions in the style of ed(1); it uses a compact nondeterministic algorithm. Egrep patterns are full
regular expressions; it uses a fast deterministic algorithm that sometimes needs exponential space. Fgrep patterns are fixed strings; it
is fast and compact.
The following options are recognized.
-v All lines but those matching are printed.
-c Only a count of matching lines is printed.
-l The names of files with matching lines are listed (once) separated by newlines.
-n Each line is preceded by its line number in the file.
-b Each line is preceded by the block number on which it was found. This is sometimes useful in locating disk block numbers by con-
text.
-s No output is produced, only status.
-h Do not print filename headers with output lines.
-y Lower case letters in the pattern will also match upper case letters in the input (grep only).
-e expression
Same as a simple expression argument, but useful when the expression begins with a -.
-f file
The regular expression (egrep) or string list (fgrep) is taken from the file.
-x (Exact) only lines matched in their entirety are printed (fgrep only).
Care should be taken when using the characters $ * [ ^ | ? ' " ( ) and in the expression as they are also meaningful to the Shell. It is
safest to enclose the entire expression argument in single quotes ' '.
Fgrep searches for lines that contain one of the (newline-separated) strings.
Egrep accepts extended regular expressions. In the following description `character' excludes newline:
A followed by a single character matches that character.
The character ^ ($) matches the beginning (end) of a line.
A . matches any character.
A single character not otherwise endowed with special meaning matches that character.
A string enclosed in brackets [] matches any single character from the string. Ranges of ASCII character codes may be abbreviated
as in `a-z0-9'. A ] may occur only as the first character of the string. A literal - must be placed where it can't be mistaken as
a range indicator.
A regular expression followed by * (+, ?) matches a sequence of 0 or more (1 or more, 0 or 1) matches of the regular expression.
Two regular expressions concatenated match a match of the first followed by a match of the second.
Two regular expressions separated by | or newline match either a match for the first or a match for the second.
A regular expression enclosed in parentheses matches a match for the regular expression.
The order of precedence of operators at the same parenthesis level is [] then *+? then concatenation then | and newline.
SEE ALSO ed(1), sed(1), sh(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 1 if none, 2 for syntax errors or inaccessible files.
BUGS
Ideally there should be only one grep, but we don't know a single algorithm that spans a wide enough range of space-time tradeoffs.
Lines are limited to 256 characters; longer lines are truncated.
GREP(1)