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Thank you RudiC! That's exactly what I needed!
Many regards
Stephan

Hi,

can I make grep stop after finding the first occurrence of a regex in a line?

Given:

file with various regex patterns
file to be grep'ed

Sadly some of the regex patterns cannot be...

Thank you for your explanation! Now I've got it! :cool:



Yeah, you could bet on it... ;)

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Yeah, that's what I wanted to see! :D

Could you please explain why it didn't work out with a simple ".*" instead of the more exact "[^|]*\|[^|]*\|[^|]*\|[^|]*\|"? I'm not that familiar with the...

To be more precise:

I have a shell script which calls a grep command (and does some more postprocessing).
This grep uses a file that holds a bunch of regexes and one of the regexes should be able...

Hi to you all,

I'm just struggling with a regex problem and I'm pretty sure that I'm missing sth obvious... :confused:

I need a regex to feed my grep in order to find lines that contain one...

Thanks for the hint.

I think I will move that step to the postprocessing step since the result file of the main grep process will be much smaller than the original files.

Hi experts,

I have a file with regexes which is used for automatic searches on several files (40+ GB).

To do some postprocessing with the grep result I need the matching line as well as the...

Oh, yes, sometimes life can be really easy! :-) But sometimes I can't see the wood for the (christmas) trees... :wall:

Thank you!

Stephan

Hi,

I have a script output.sh which produces the following output (as an example):
"abc def" "ghi jkl"

This output should be handled from script input.sh as input and the quotes should be...

Wow, that's a really nice solution. I never would have found that on my own - of course, that's the reason why I post to the Dummies forum... :rolleyes: Thank you!

Hey, thanks for your fast reply!

I don't care about pretty solutions - it works and that's important to me! I just tested on my real file and that's what I looked for!

Maybe one day I have the...

Hi,

I have several files with data that have to be imported to a database. These files contain records with separator characters. Some records are corrupt (2 separators are missing) and I need to...