03-19-2005
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Originally Posted by mskarica
Thanks. That worked exactly how I needed it to. If you don't mind, can you explain what this means for me so I know in the future:
's/^\([0-9]*\)[:].*/ \ 1/p'
Thanks a lot.
You'll need to read up on regular expressions to really make much use of it, but here it is anyway:
The -n means not to print anything unless it's explicitly requested.
s - substitute
/ - beginning of patter to match
^ - The null character at the start of the line
\(....\) - store this in the pattern buffer
[0-9]* - match any number of occurrences numbers in the range 0-9
[:] - match the ":" character
.* - match any number of any characters (the rest of the line)
/ - end on the match patter and beginning on the replace pattern
\1 - the first entry in the pattern buffer ( what was stored with \(...\) )
/ - end of the replace pattern
p - print
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GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)
NAME
grep - search a file for lines containing a given pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [-elnsv] pattern [file] ...
OPTIONS
-e -e pattern is the same as pattern
-c Print a count of lines matched
-i Ignore case
-l Print file names, no lines
-n Print line numbers
-s Status only, no printed output
-v Select lines that do not match
EXAMPLES
grep mouse file # Find lines in file containing mouse
grep [0-9] file # Print lines containing a digit
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches one or more files (by default, stdin) and selects out all the lines that match the pattern. All the regular expressions
accepted by ed and mined are allowed. In addition, + can be used instead of * to mean 1 or more occurrences, ? can be used to mean 0 or 1
occurrences, and | can be used between two regular expressions to mean either one of them. Parentheses can be used for grouping. If a
match is found, exit status 0 is returned. If no match is found, exit status 1 is returned. If an error is detected, exit status 2 is
returned.
SEE ALSO
cgrep(1), fgrep(1), sed(1), awk(9).
GREP(1)