Hi, maybe someone could help me.
This is the thing. I usually use the command "mail" on my scripts to send me info about the linux box, something like:
df -k | mail -s "disk usage" lalala@lalala.com.
This works fine in all the linuxes that sendmail is installed, but there is one with Postfix... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to write a sed script which from
batiato:
batiato/giubbe:
pip_b.2.txt
pip_b.3.txt
pip_b.3mmm.txt
bennato:
bennato/peterpan:
123.txt
consoli:
pip_a.12.txt
daniele: (2 Replies)
Hi. Is there a way in awk to show all lines between a line number and the next line containing a particular regex? We can do these, of course:
awk '/regex1/,/regex2/' filename
awk 'FNR > X && FNR < Y' filename
But can they be combined? Thanks. (3 Replies)
Hello,
let's start by giving you guys a few examples of the text:
"READ /TEXT123/ABC123"
"READ /TEXT123/ABC123/"
"READ TEXT123/ABC123"
"READ TEXT123/ABC123/"
"READ TEXT123/TEXT456/ABC123"
"READ /TEXT123/TEXT456/ABC123"
"READ /TEXT123/TEXT456/ABC123/"
TEXT and ABC can be and I... (5 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to filter some data using awk. I have a statement-
awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\n" ; RS = "" } { if ( $6 = "City: " ) { print "City: Unknown" } else { print $6 } }'`
The $6 values are
City: London
City: Madrid
City:
City: Tokyo
This expression seems to catch all the lines... (4 Replies)
How can I specify special meaning characters like ^ or $ inside a regex range. e.g
Suppose I want to search for a string that either starts with '|' character or begins with start-of-line character.
I tried the following but it does not work:
sed 's/\(\)/<do something here>/g' file1
... (3 Replies)
I have a file of protein sequences with headers (my source file). Based on a list of IDs (which are included in some of the headers), I'd like to print out only the specified sequences, with only the ID as header.
In other words, I'd like to search source.txt for the terms in IDs.txt, and print... (3 Replies)
Good day,
I have a list of regular expressions in file1. For each match in file2, print the containing line and the line after.
file1:
file2:
Output:
I can match a regex and print the line and line after
awk '{lines = $0} /Macrosiphum_rosae/ {print lines ; print lines } '
... (1 Reply)
Hello.
I have been looking high and low for the solution for this. I seems there should be a simple answer, but alas.
I have a big xml file, and I need to extract certain information from specific items. The information I need can be found between a specific set of tags. let's call them... (2 Replies)
The awk below executes as expected if the id in $4 (like in f) is unique. However most of my data is like f1 where the same id can appear multiple times. I think that is the reason why the awk is not working as expected. I added a comment on the line that I can not change without causing the script... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
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)