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# 1  
Old 01-09-2012
Eliminating space constraint in grep
here in the below code just a space between 'Info' and '(' is showing that the patter doesnt match...
Code:
 echo "CREATE TABLE Info  (" | grep -i "CREATE TABLE Info  (" | wc | awk -F' ' '{print $1}'
1
echo "CREATE TABLE Info (" | grep -i "CREATE TABLE Info  (" | wc | awk -F' ' '{print $1}'
0

is there any way we could make it not to consider space as a difference...
# 2  
Old 01-09-2012
Code:
echo "CREATE TABLE Info  (" | grep -i "CREATE TABLE Info[ ]*(" | wc -l

# 3  
Old 01-09-2012
can i use this one too...?
Code:
echo "CREATE TABLE Info  (" | grep -i "[ ]*CREATE[ ]*TABLE[ ]*Info[ ]*(" | wc -l

what if the situation is like this
Code:
cat file1
.
.
.create table blah blah
.
.
create table info (
.
.
etc(many tables)

and
Code:
variable="CREATE TABLE Info   ("
how to make it match for this scenario...
cat file1 | grep -i $variable |wc -l  - - -- this wont work right

# 4  
Old 01-09-2012
echo "CREATE TABLE Info (" | grep -i "[ ]*CREATE[ ]*TABLE[ ]*Info[ ]*(" | wc -l --> It looks right syntactically. But since you're echo-ing just one line, there's not point in piping it to wc -l as you already know the line count is '1'.

Wrap $variable in double-quotes.
Code:
cat file1 | grep -i "$variable" |wc -l

# 5  
Old 01-09-2012
(oh sorry i forgot to put quotes to the variable)but i meant the code wont work because of space parameter between 'info' and '(' in the variable... how to rectify that...? is there any way so that it will check whether that line is present or not in the file even thought there is variable spaces between the words in the variable?
Last edited by vivek d r; 01-09-2012 at 08:26 AM..
# 6  
Old 01-09-2012
Code:
$ cat input
CREATE   TABLE       Info         (
CREATE  TABLE  Info    (
CREATE    TABLE   Info    (
hellow world
hello earth

Code:
$ var="CREATE[ ]*TABLE[ ]*Info[ ]*("
$ cat input | grep -i "$var" | wc -l
3

This User Gave Thanks to balajesuri For This Post:
vivek d r
# 7  
Old 01-09-2012
thanks this might work :-) i hope there is no other option to directly make them space insenstive by using some options or regular expressions (i was trying to avoid manipulating the variable content so)... thanks anyway :-)
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