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Old 07-27-2012
grep ignoring punctuation

I have a file xxx.txt containing

winter_kool
sugar_"sweet"

Is there anyway i can grep xxx.txt for strings without using punctuations.

for eg:

`grep sugarsweet xxx.txt` should give output :
sugar_"sweet"
# 2  
Old 07-27-2012
I don't think grep can do that, but you can build something in awk to do that.

Code:
awk '{ T=$0; gsub(/[^a-zA-Z]+/, "", T) } (T ~ MATCH)' MATCH="sugarsweet" filename

Use nawk on solaris.
# 3  
Old 07-28-2012
Thanx for the help man!
It works
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