Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi
I need to grep a particular world like and redirect into a temporary file .But while iam grepping some unwanted data are aslo coming like .ex In a FILE all these TABLENAMES are present .
module_table1,module_table2, module_table3,module_table5, module_table1_temp , module_table2_temp .....modtype_table1 ...

My requirement is to find all the table which start with a particular module and it shouldnot END WITH _temp ? Please help me .

currently i am doing like .
grep "module_*" FILE

This shows module_table1_temp , module_table2_temp also ...
But i dont need this _temp how to eliminate ?
Please help ?

what about this ?

Code:

grep "module_*" FILE | grep -v "_temp"

Thanks its working .

Hi,

Could you post your input file ?
Fileds are seperated by comma (,) or new line ?

Hi
In the files these table names are wriiten all in a new line. Can u give the input how will it act in either way if they were seperated by (,) .As for newline its working with grep "module_*" FILE | grep -v "_temp"

Hi,

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

while (<>) {
chomp;
@array= split /\,/ ;
@modulearray= grep (/^module/,@array);
@greparray = grep (/[^temp]$/,@modulearray);
print "@greparray\n";
}

Input file

Code:

module_table1,module_table2,module_table3,module_table5,module_table1_temp,module_table2_temp,modtype_table1

Code:

Perl scriptname.pl inputfile

hey it's in perl . perl i dont know anyway thanks for the effort ...hope this may help someone ..