I guess/hope you have
otherwise your search in *.txt includes patterns.txt and output.txt - with random results.
The following grep -f patternfileis easier and avoids duplicates (in case multiple patterns match)
For separate output files have a loop:
I want to get a list of all the files in the current directory that have two patterns. I can do first grep of one pattern and then with the output do the grep of the second pattern.
if the output of 1st pattern search results in many files, it is very difficult to do a grep of the 2nd pattern for... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Can we grep multiple patterns in UNIX.
for example:
cat /x/y/oratab | grep -i "pattern1|pattern2" .... etc
I require the syntax for multiple patterns. | is not working as I explained in example.
Malay (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file. I need to find multiple patterns in a row and need those rows to divert to new file.
I tried using grep -e / -E / -F options as given in man.
But its not working.
==> cat testgrep.txt
william,fernandes,xxxxx
mark,morsov,yyyy
yy=,xx=
yyyy=,xxxx==
==>... (7 Replies)
I'm trying to parse COBOL code to combine variables into one string. I have two variable names that get literals moved into them and I'd like to use sed, awk, or similar to find these lines and combine the variables into the final component. These variable names are always VAR1 and VAR2. For... (8 Replies)
I have a file with many rows.
I want to grep for multiple patterns from the file.
For eg:
XX=123|YY=222|ZZ=566
AA=123|EE=222|GG=566
FF=123|RR=222|GG=566
DD=123|RR=222|GG=566
I want the lines which has both XX and ZZ.
I know I can get it like this.
grep XX file | grep YY
But... (10 Replies)
I want to search files (basically .cc files) in /xx folder and subfolders.
Those files (*.cc files) must contain #include "header.h" AND x() function.
I am writing it another way to make it clear,
I wanna list of *.cc files that have 'header.h' & 'x()'. They must have two strings, header.h... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have to write one script that has to search a list of numbers in certain zipped files.
For eg. one file file1.txt contains the numbers. File1.txt contains 5,00,000 numbers and I have to search each number in zipped files(The number of zipped files are around 1000 each file is 5 MB)
I have... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file containing list of strings like
i:
Pink
Yellow
Green
and I have file having list of file names in a directory
j :
a
b
c
d
Where j contains of a ,b,c,d are as follows
a:
Pink (3 Replies)
I am trying to grep a variable with multiple lines with multiple patterns
below is the pattern list in a variable called "grouplst", each pattern is speerated by "|"
grouplst="example1|example2|example3|example4|example5|example6|example7"
I need to use the patterns above to grep a... (2 Replies)
I am able to grep multiple patterns which stored in a files. However, how could we replace the whole line with either the pattern or new string?
For example:
pattern_file: *Info in the () is not part of the pattern file. They are the intended name to replace the whole line after the pattern... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: wxboo
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
bm
BM(PUBLIC) BM(PUBLIC)
NAME
bm - search a file for a string
SYNOPSIS
/usr/public/bm [ option ] ... [ strings ] [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Bm searches the input files (standard input default) for lines matching a string. Normally, each line found is copied to the standard out-
put. It is blindingly fast. Bm strings are fixed sequences of characters: there are no wildcards, repetitions, or other features of regu-
lar expressions. Bm is also case sensitive. The following options are recognized.
-x (Exact) only lines matched in their entirety are printed
-l The names of files with matching lines are listed (once) separated by newlines.
-c Only a count of the number of matches is printed
-e string
The string is the next argument after the -e flag. This allows strings beginning with '-'.
-h No filenames are printed, even if multiple files are searched.
-n Each line is preceded by the number of characters from the beginning of the file to the match.
-s Silent mode. Nothing is printed (except error messages). This is useful for checking the error status.
-f file
The string list is taken from the file.
Unless the -h option is specified the file name is shown if there is more than one input file. Care should be taken when using the charac-
ters $ * [ ^ | ( ) and in the strings (listed on the command line) as they are also meaningful to the Shell. It is safest to enclose the
entire expression argument in single quotes ' '.
Bm searches for lines that contain one of the (newline-separated) strings, using the Boyer-Moore algorithm. It is far superior in terms of
speed to the grep (egrep, fgrep) family of pattern matchers for fixed-pattern searching, and its speed increases with pattern length.
SEE ALSO grep(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 1 if none, 2 for syntax errors or inaccessible files.
AUTHOR
Peter Bain (pdbain@wateng), with modifications suggested by John Gilmore
BUGS
Only 100 patterns are allowed.
Patterns may not contain newlines.
If a line (delimited by newlines, and the beginning and end of the file) is longer than 8000 charcters (e.g. in a core dump), it will not
be completely printed.
If multiple patterns are specified, the order of the ouput lines is not necessarily the same as the order of the input lines.
A line will be printed once for each different string on that line.
The algorithm cannot count lines.
The -n and -c work differently from fgrep.
The -v, -i, and -b are not available.
4th Berkeley Distribution 8 July 1985 BM(PUBLIC)