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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep -w not printing exact matches Post 302949171 by jacobs.smith on Tuesday 7th of July 2015 05:02:27 PM
Old 07-07-2015
Grep -w not printing exact matches
Dear All,

Here is my input

Code:
TAACGCACTTGCGGCCCCGGGATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATGGATT
NAGAGGGACGGCCGGGGGCATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGATTTC
NGGGTTTTAAGCAGGAGGTGTCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGATTT
NTGGAACCTGGCGCTAGACCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATGGATTTTTG
ATACTTACCTGGCAGGGGAGATACCATGATCAATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
NACAAAGCATCGCGAAGGCCCGCGGCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATGGGAT

When I try this command
Code:
cat 1 | grep AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I get this output

Code:
TAACGCACTTGCGGCCCCGGGATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATGGATT
NAGAGGGACGGCCGGGGGCATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGATTTC
NGGGTTTTAAGCAGGAGGTGTCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGATTT

But when I try

Code:
cat 1 | grep -w "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

I get nothing in my output. I would like to search for exact strings in a file with more than 6 million lines.

Please comment.
 

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ppmtosixel(1)                                                 General Commands Manual                                                ppmtosixel(1)

NAME

       ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as input.  Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output.  The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
       LJ250 color inkjet printer.

       If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled.  A printer control header and a color assignment table
       begin the SIX file.  Image data is written in a compressed format by default.  A printer control footer ends the image file.

OPTIONS

       -raw   If  specified,  each  pixel  will  be explicitly described in the image file.  If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
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       -margin
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PRINTING

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BUGS

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SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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