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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Egrep how to make sure string is after 5 comma Post 302862043 by radoulov on Thursday 10th of October 2013 05:20:58 AM
Old 10-10-2013
Somehow cleaner with extended grep (egrep):
Code:
grep -E '(.*,){5,}f' infile

If you're on Solaris/Oracle OS use /usr/xpg4/bin/grep.
 

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