sorry the browswer not putting code tags around the code when I click on button , so I am adding them manually hope it works.
can someone help me on my sed command please?
I am using sun solaris and Linux , what I want is SED to print any string (or output it to a file preferably) that does not have either "01","03","05","07","10" or "11" on the 9th and 10th position .
e.g from the file below I only want these three lines
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Just using standard sed features and avoiding cases where systems allowing EREs or BREs make a difference, both of the following seem to also do what you want:
and:
But, I have no experience with openVMS, so I can't say whether or not either of these will work there.
awesome this one worked
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how does this command works though .. I understand each parts but how the output of one gets piped to the other?
hi,
i got a problem with understanding regular expressions. what i wanna do is
scanning the wtmp logfile for ips and if a specific ip is echoed id like to be a part of a text to be assigned to it.
the scanning is done with
#! /bin/bash
cat wtmp | strings | egrep -o "+\.+\.+\." | sort -u... (6 Replies)
I have a simple file test.out that contains data in the form of
key1=A|shift1
key2=B|shift2
key3=C|shift3
and so on.
I need to get it to print
A
B
C
I can do it using lookbehind assertion such as this
( ?<==)()
yet I was wondering if there is another way of mutching single... (8 Replies)
Hi
I have a question on regex
There is a line in a script like
my_file="$(echo SunMonTueWed | sed "s//_&g") "
My question what does the expression _&g do.
Obviously in this example the output is
_Sun_Mon_Tue_Wed
Another question can i use some trick to get the result like... (3 Replies)
Hi, im sure this is really simple but i cant quite figure it out. how do i test against a word at the beginning of the line but up to the point of a delimiter i.e. ":"
for example if i wanted to test against the user in the /etc/passwd file
peter:x:101:100:peters account:/var/peter:/bin/sh
... (3 Replies)
I have a basic question regarding * and . while using regex:
# echo 3 | grep ^*$
3
I think I understood why it outputs "3" here (because '*' matches zero or more of the previous character) but I don't understand the output of the following command:
# echo 3 | grep ^.$
#
I thought I... (7 Replies)
I have dates in mm/dd/yy format that I wish to convert to yy-mm-dd format.
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Hi,
I am trying to write a regex for myscript and need some input from experts.
here is what I must grep for
TICKET{Sapce}{Space}{hyphen}
so here is the example data
TICKET 34554, CT-12345, TICKET 12345: some text here
TICKET 2342, CT-12345, MA-12344: some text here
TICKET... (5 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have a file in the following format:
cmpr5551
cmpr6002
cmpr93
anne 5454
bbro 434
cmprsvc
cmprsvc7
ffgi55
vefe99
cmprsvc8
cmprsvc9
I need to "grep" only the entries which start with "cmpr" followed by the number. All other entries should be excluded.
I was trying to use... (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am trying to "grep" or "egrep" the following entry out of the file using regex:
MACCDB1 or MACCDB2
The problem is that the file might contain other entries which start with "MACCDB" string.
I was trying to use regex to "grep" the exact pattern but it fails to output the correct... (2 Replies)
Hi I am trying to match lines having following string
BIND dn="uid=
putting something like this is not working :
/\sBIND dn="uid=/
Any suggestion.
Thanks. John (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: john_prince
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [ -v "string"] [ pattern template] ... pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so
that FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and
some of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2: Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3: Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4: Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)