OK. You lucked out... The BRE sampletest*\\_[0-9] tells grep to match and print lines that contain the string sampletes followed by zero or more occurrences of t followed by whatever unspecified characters are matched by the character sequence \_ on the regular expression matching engine used on your operating system followed by a decimal digit. It looks like your operating system's RE matching engine chooses to use that sequence to match an underscore character,
To match the filenames you want to process, the following BRE would work more reliably:
If you want to exclude matching filenames like sampletest_112.xml.0001, you could force the xml to only be matched at the end of a filename with:
Now that we have gotten past that... What statement in your script is failing to do what you want it to do? What are the arguments being passed to that command according to the trace output you're seeing? What arguments did you hope would be passed to that command instead of the arguments that are actually being passed to that command?
Hi, I need to chope the header and footer record from an input file and make a new output file, please let me know how i can do it in unix.thanks. (4 Replies)
I am trying to get a total number of tapes w/out headers or footers in a ERV file and append it to the file. For some reason I cannot get it to work. Any ideas?
#!/bin/sh
dat=`date +"%b%d_%Y"`
+ date +%b%d_%Y
dat=Nov16_2006
tapemgr="/export/home/legato/tapemgr/rpts"... (1 Reply)
I have one large file, after every 200 line i have to split the file and the add header and footer to each small file?
It is possible to add different header and footer to each file? (1 Reply)
I have one large file, after every 200 line i have to split the file and the add header and footer to each small file?
It is possible to add different header and footer to each file? (7 Replies)
I am having report file with header and footer . The details in between header and footer are separated by a pipe charater. I want to sort the file by considering multiple columns in between header and footer.
pls help (4 Replies)
This is my file(Target.txt)
name|age|locaction
abc|23|del
xyz|24|mum
jkl|25|kol
The file should be like this
1|03252012
1|name|age|location
2|abc|23|del
2|xyz|24|mum
2|jkl|25|kol
2|kkk|26|hyd
3|4
Column 1 is row indicator
for row 1 and 2, column indicator is 1,for data rows... (1 Reply)
Hi Every one,
what is the coomand to remove header or footer from a file.
Please help me by providing command/syntax to remove header/footer from unix.
Thanks in advance for all your support. (5 Replies)
Hi There!
I am saving the file count of all files in a directory to an output file using:
wc -l * > FileCount.txt
I get:
114 G4SXORD
3 G4SXORH
0 G4SXORP
117 total
But this count includes header and footer. I want to subtract 2 from the count and get
... (7 Replies)
Is there any command to eliminate Header and footer from EBCDIC file (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: abhilashnair
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LEARN ABOUT V7
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep, egrep, fgrep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ] ... expression [ file ] ...
egrep [ option ] ... [ expression ] [ file ] ...
fgrep [ option ] ... [ strings ] [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Commands of the grep family search the input files (standard input default) for lines matching a pattern. Normally, each line found is
copied to the standard output; unless the -h flag is used, the file name is shown if there is more than one input file.
Grep patterns are limited regular expressions in the style of ed(1); it uses a compact nondeterministic algorithm. Egrep patterns are full
regular expressions; it uses a fast deterministic algorithm that sometimes needs exponential space. Fgrep patterns are fixed strings; it
is fast and compact.
The following options are recognized.
-v All lines but those matching are printed.
-c Only a count of matching lines is printed.
-l The names of files with matching lines are listed (once) separated by newlines.
-n Each line is preceded by its line number in the file.
-b Each line is preceded by the block number on which it was found. This is sometimes useful in locating disk block numbers by con-
text.
-s No output is produced, only status.
-h Do not print filename headers with output lines.
-y Lower case letters in the pattern will also match upper case letters in the input (grep only).
-e expression
Same as a simple expression argument, but useful when the expression begins with a -.
-f file
The regular expression (egrep) or string list (fgrep) is taken from the file.
-x (Exact) only lines matched in their entirety are printed (fgrep only).
Care should be taken when using the characters $ * [ ^ | ? ' " ( ) and in the expression as they are also meaningful to the Shell. It is
safest to enclose the entire expression argument in single quotes ' '.
Fgrep searches for lines that contain one of the (newline-separated) strings.
Egrep accepts extended regular expressions. In the following description `character' excludes newline:
A followed by a single character matches that character.
The character ^ ($) matches the beginning (end) of a line.
A . matches any character.
A single character not otherwise endowed with special meaning matches that character.
A string enclosed in brackets [] matches any single character from the string. Ranges of ASCII character codes may be abbreviated
as in `a-z0-9'. A ] may occur only as the first character of the string. A literal - must be placed where it can't be mistaken as
a range indicator.
A regular expression followed by * (+, ?) matches a sequence of 0 or more (1 or more, 0 or 1) matches of the regular expression.
Two regular expressions concatenated match a match of the first followed by a match of the second.
Two regular expressions separated by | or newline match either a match for the first or a match for the second.
A regular expression enclosed in parentheses matches a match for the regular expression.
The order of precedence of operators at the same parenthesis level is [] then *+? then concatenation then | and newline.
SEE ALSO ed(1), sed(1), sh(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 1 if none, 2 for syntax errors or inaccessible files.
BUGS
Ideally there should be only one grep, but we don't know a single algorithm that spans a wide enough range of space-time tradeoffs.
Lines are limited to 256 characters; longer lines are truncated.
GREP(1)