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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script extract text from txt file with grep Post 302915383 by pilnet101 on Tuesday 2nd of September 2014 04:42:06 PM
Old 09-02-2014
The main two issues with your grep is that you are looking for a match at the beginning of the line (using ^). There is only one line which has data at the very beginning in your example text, which is the first line. Also you are only looking for two lower case characters.

If your requirement is essentially, look for a " then at least two characters, followed by all sorts of data (which may include a pipe) fololwed by a ) , then you can simply change your grep to:

Code:
grep '\"[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z].*)'

Also just to add, you don't need the cat in there, you can simply pass the file to the grep command so the last line in your script becomes:

Code:
grep '\"[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z].*)' somefile.txt > outputfile.txt

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zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

																	  ZGREP(1)
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