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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pattern search (regular expression in UNIX) Post 302865051 by targzeta on Thursday 17th of October 2013 02:09:15 PM
Old 10-17-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pratik4891
thanks targzeta but its not working

I want to identify any string that starts with
\rtf1 and ends with fs16 or fs20 and any characters in between
Ok, then:
Code:
egrep '^\\rtf1.*fs(16|20)$'

"starts with \rtf1" -> '^\\rtf1'
"ends with fs16 or fs20" -> 'fs(16|20)$'
"any characters in between" -> '.*'

Emanuele
 

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