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Your egrep approach will not work, because it is line based. The syntax of the second part is incorrect too and it the regular expression on the first part can be reduced to
In the first example you use a -c option which counts the number of appearances. But now it is the actual result you are after?
Please provide a corresponding input sample and output sample and also verbally describe what result you are trying to achieve. It also helps if you state your specific operating system and version. I guessed it this time from the error message you reported....
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Also, to find al matches, try:
Or, to combine this with count and exit status, like Corona688 suggested, try something a bit more elaborate:
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-23-2015 at 01:55 AM..
Hi
I am trying to use this command:
egrep '^a{2,6}$' testexpr4D
to retreive lines with 2,3,4,5, or 6 a's in a file .
The file testexpr4D has entries like:
a
aa
aaa
aaaa
aaaaa
aaaaaa
123456
ABCDEF
I was expecting to see 5 lines in the output but nothing happens.
Can anyone help... (10 Replies)
Hi,
Can someone help me count this line:
Say I have a file (file1.txt) that contains below:
11/16 13:08:19.5436 18096 --- Generating a <reading> event
11/16 13:08:19.7784 18096 ---- Sending a <writing> event
11/16 13:08:37.4516 18096 --- Generating a <reading> event
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Hello all,
I'm a first time poster and a unix/linux noob so please be understanding.
I am trying this command below:
# egrep -c "Oct".+"Connect: ppp" /var/log/messages*
/var/log/messages:53
/var/log/messages.1:35
/var/log/messages.2:63
/var/log/messages.3:27
/var/log/messages.4:12
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Hi, i have a a bunch of directories that are always named with six lowercase alpha's and either one or two numeric's (but no more)
so for example names could be
qwerty1
qwerty9
qwerty10
qwerty67
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test.txt:
appleboy
orangeletter
sweetdeal
catracer
conducivelot
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I need your help to get a high-performance solution.
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Its really 2 questions, but both are pretty basic.
Linux Redhat
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I have a txt file and I would like to use egrep without using -v option to exclude the lines which matches with multiple Strings.
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
purity
PURITY(6) Games Manual PURITY(6)NAME
purity - a general purpose purity test
SYNOPSIS
/usr/games/purity [ flags ] [ testname ]
DESCRIPTION
Purity is an interactive purity test program with a simple, user interface and datafile format. For each test, questions are printed to
the your terminal, and you are prompted for an answer to the current question. At a prompt, these are your choices:
y Answer "yes" to the question.
n Answer "no" to the question.
b Backup one question, if you answered it incorrectly, or someone is watching you take the test, and you don't (or do) want to
admit a different answer.
r Redraw the current question.
q Quit the test, and print the current score.
? Print a help screen for the current prompt.
k Kill a section of the test. This skips all the questions of the test until the next subject heading.
a Toggle answer mode between real answers and obfuscated answers. Real answers print "yes" and "no", while obfuscated answers
are "Maybe" and "maybe". Obfuscated answers are preferred if you are shy, and don't want people to be able to read your
answers over your shoulder as you take the test.
d Toggle dERanGe output.
s Print your current score on the test you are taking.
l Toggle score logging.
At the end of the test, your score is printed out. For most purity tests, lower scores denote more "experience" of the test material.
FLAGS
These are the command line flags for the test.
-a Show real answers (i.e. "yes" and "no") instead of obfuscated ones (i.e. "Maybe" and "maybe") as you answer the questions.
-d PrINt THe tESt in DerANgeD pRInT.
-f Take the test in fast mode. Only the questions are printed, and not any other text blocks, like the introdution, subject
headers, and the conclusion.
-l Take the test without having your score logged.
-p Print the test without prompting for answers. This is useful for making hard copies of the tests without having to edit out
the prompts by hand.
-r Decrypt the test using the Rot 13 algorithm. This is done as a form of "protection", such that if you read a rot13 test and
it offends you, it's your own fault.
-z zoom through more prompts in large text blocks. The default is to prompt the user for more when a screenful of text has been
printed without any user input.
DATAFILE FORMAT
The format of the datafiles is a very simple format, intended such that new tests can quickly and easily be converted to run with the test.
There are four types of text in a purity test datafile. Each type is contained in a bracket type of punctuation. The definitions are as
follows:
the styles of text blocks are:
{ plain text block }
[ subject header ]
( test question )
and < conclusion >
Plain text blocks are printed out character for character.
Subject headers are preceded by their subject numbers, starting at 1, and then printed as text blocks.
Questions are preceded by their numbers, and then prompt the user to answer the question, keeping track of the user's current score.
Conclusions first calculate and print the user's score for the test, then print out the conclusion as a text block.
If you wish to include any of the various bracket punctuation in your text, the backslash ("") character will escape the next character.
To print a question with parentheses, you would use the following format:
(have you ever written a purity test (like this one)?)
the output would be this:
1. have you ever written a purity test (like this one)?
and then it would have asked the user for her/his answer.
For a generic datafile, use the "sample" datafile for the test.
FILES
/var/games/purity.scores the score logfile
/usr/share/games/purity/* test data files
AUTHOR
Eric Lechner, lechner@ucscb.ucsc.edu
18 December 1989 PURITY(6)