Hi
I'm not very good with the serach patterns and I'd need a sample how to find a line that has multiple patterns.
Say I want to find a line that has "abd", "123" and "QWERTY" and there can be any characters or numbers between the serach patterns, I have a file that has thousands of lines and... (10 Replies)
Hi there,
We have been given a bit of coursework using awk on html pages. Without giving too much away and risking the wrath of the plagerism checks, I can say we need to deal with certain html elements.
There may be several of these elements on one line. My question is, if there are more... (1 Reply)
Hi guys,
say I have a few files in a directory (58 text files or somthing)
each one contains mulitple strings that I wish to replace with other strings
so in these 58 files I'm looking for say the following strings:
JAM (replace with BUTTER)
BREAD (replace with CRACKER)
SCOOP (replace... (19 Replies)
file contents looks like this :
#START
line1 of record1
line2 of record1
#END
#START
line1 of record2
line2 of record2
line3 of record2
#END
#START
line1 of record3
#END
my question how should i make it a records between #START and #END .
willl i be able to get the contents of the... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have a file like
1 2
1 2 3
1 5 6
11 12
10 2
7 5
17 12
I would like to have an output as
1 2 3 5 6 10 7
11 12 17
any help would be highly appreciated
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need help to match pattern started with "RW" in file 1 and with pattern in $1 in file 2 as follows:-
File 1
BH /TOTAL=466(423); /POSITIVE=300(257); /UNKNOWN=25(25);
BH /F_P=141(141); /F_N=136; /P=4;
CC /TAX=!?; /MAX-R=2;
CC /VER=2;
RW P9610, AR_BSU , T; PAE25, AE_E57... (10 Replies)
Hello all,
I have since given up trying to figure this out and used sed instead, but I am trying to understand awk and was wondering how someone might do this in awk.
I am trying to match on the first field of a specific file with the first field on multiple files, and append the second field... (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 PLAN9
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines (with newlines excluded) that match the pattern, a regular expression as
defined in regexp(6). Normally, each line matching the pattern is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output.
The options are
-c Print only a count of matching lines.
-h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
-i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form.
-l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
-L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
-n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
-s Produce no output, but return status.
-v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
argument.)
Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
single quotes '...'.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/grep.c
SEE ALSO ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(6)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.
GREP(1)