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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Searching for exact match using grep Post 302884091 by ziggy6 on Friday 17th of January 2014 11:26:14 AM
Old 01-17-2014
Searching for exact match using grep
I am searching for an exact match on a value read from another file to lookup an email address in another file. The file being checked is called "contacts" and it has Act #, email address, and contact person.
Code:
1693;abc1693@yahoo.comt;Tommy D
6423;abc6423@yahoo.comt;Jim Doran
6491;abc6491@gamil.comdt;Snowden
155;xyz155@gmail.com; Lenny Melfi
442;xyz422@test.com; Tommy Davis
2155;abc2155@google.com; Cindy F

Code:
email=`grep $acc /u/star/contacts|cut -f2 -d';'`

The results give me 155 and 2155 and I only want to get 155 as a match so I get email = xyz155@gamail.com and email = abx2155@google.com. Any suggestions on how to get only 155?
Last edited by Scott; 01-17-2014 at 12:31 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code blocks
 

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