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Old 10-13-2004
Question egrep and grouping

i am using the c shell on solaris.

directories i'm working with:

ls -1d DIV*
DIV_dental/
DIV_ibc/
DIV_ifc/
DIV_index/
DIV_pharm/
DIV_sectionI/
DIV_sectionI-title/
DIV_sectionI-toc/
DIV_sectionII-title/
DIV_sectionII-toc/
DIV_standing/
DIV_standing-toc/
DIV_title/
DIV_vision/

what i am attempting to do is capture only the directories containing "dental", "vision", or "pharm".

at the command line i can do this via
ls -1d DIV* | egrep 'dental|pharm|vision'
or
ls -1d DIV* | nawk '/dental|vision|pharm/{print $1}'
and so on...

however, in my shell script this does not work (the $grp and $job variables i am using for a path are legit):

foreach div (`ls -1d ${grp}/${job}/DIV* | egrep 'pharm|dental|vision'`)
printf "\t%s..." ${div:t}
end

this gives me ALL directories. if i cut it back to egrep 'pharm|dental' i get only the pharm and dental directories Smilie

i have also tried using awk and nawk in the script, with the same results. my coworker has advised me to try something with find, which i will, but i am curious to why this is happening.

thanks for your assistance.

Last edited by effigy; 10-14-2004 at 01:41 AM..
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Old 10-14-2004
i was able to get this working with the code below:

foreach div (`ls -1 ${grp}/${job} | egrep 'DIV_(pharm|dental|vision)'`)
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