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Hi All,

I am trying to extract data from a large text file , I want to extract lines which contains a five digit number followed by a hyphen , like

12345- , i tried with egrep ,eg : egrep "[0-9]+[-]" text.txt

but which returns all the lines which contains any number of digits followed by hyhen , eg. 1- , 123- , 12345-

how can I modify this to extract only lines which starts with 5 digits followed by hyphen accurately.

Any suggestions in this regard is highly appreciated..

Thanks
Shiju V.Joseph

try this

Code:

'[0-9]{5}-'

shiju, you can use as John suggested but, you should probably use like this...

'^[0-9]{5}-'

otherwise it would list 5 or more digits before '-' symbol. you might end up extracting data like
123456-
1234567-
...

hi johnbach,

Thanks very much for replying ,
I tried this method ,but am getting
12345-
123456- etc

I am not getting the lines which has exactly 5digits followed by hyphen

Thanks
Shiju





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Hi ilan ,

Thank you very much for replying , i tried

egrep '^[0-9]{5}-' text.txt

but now also it is returning
12345-
123456- etc

I am not getting the line which exactly has 5digits followed by a hyphen ,like 12345-

Thanks
Shiju

try this dirty solution,

Code:

egrep  '[0-9]{5}-'  file |egrep -v '[0-9]{6}'

Hi John,

I tried that but unfortuantely dint work , returned nothing

egrep '[0-9]{5}-' text.txt gave output
egrep '[0-9]{5}-' text.txt |egrep -v '[0-9]{6}' dint give any ouput

shiju.joseph@linux-kmy7:~/Desktop> egrep '[0-9]{5}-' text.txt
123456-123213sdfsdfsdsdfsdfsd
654331-2342342342342342342342
454545-4353453453453453453453
345345-34534534534534534534534
57645756-32542352345235235234523
4234324157-2314234234234234234
shiju.joseph@linux-kmy7:~/Desktop> egrep '[0-9]{5}-' text.txt |egrep -v '[0-9]{6}'
MEA\shiju.joseph@linux-kmy7:~/Desktop>

Thanks
Shiju

grep -vw "[0-9]\{5\}-" filename

Try v and w -vw , it will work