im trying to search for a WORD in a file which
begins with a number
followed by a hypen
follwed multiple words
and end with a dot "."
and pront the entire line which matches the above.
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I tried the below but doesn seems to work. and I do not know to implement multiple search patterns for a single word.
Such a consistent formulation of a question deems a longer answer: you won't need multiple search patterns, you will only need one - and because you have already exactly specified what you need it is quite simple. Let us try:
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im trying to search for a WORD in a file
OK: Note that not every grep understands "-w" but since you already used it i suppose yours does:
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begins with a number
Quote:
followed by a hypen
Quote:
follwed multiple words
It is not clear what you mean by "words" here because it is definitely not the same meaning as you used above. I take it (from your example) that you mean sequences of capitalized characters, digits or hyphens, yes? If so:
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and end with a dot "."
We need to escape the dot, because it has a special meaning to grep ("any character"):
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