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# 1  
Old 02-14-2013
Using egrep to output expressions which are not found
Hi,

Im using the below command to search a file for multiple expressions if the 4th expression doesnt exist the command simply lists what it can find and ignores what it cant. Is there any way to get the command to output an error or a message if it cant find the 4th expression to a file?

Any help will be much appreciated Smilie

Code:
egrep -is 'Schema Area|stock|route_drop|test123' /apps/Main_structure.txt 1>/apps/grep_error.txt

Code:
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# 2  
Old 02-14-2013
You can use an egrep -v on a pipe to remove lines that match and an egrep to save lines that match.
# 3  
Old 02-14-2013
Here is an approach using nawk
Code:
nawk ' BEGIN {
                IGNORECASE=1;
        } /Schema Area/||/stock/||/route_drop/||/test123/ {
                if($0~/test123/)
                        c++;
                print;
        } END {
                if(c==0) 
                        print "Error: 4th expression not found!";
}' /apps/Main_structure.txt

# 4  
Old 02-14-2013
You can also use sed, where you can act on lines that have a pattern '/pattern/{...}' or not '/pattern/!{...}' or test one inside the other.
# 5  
Old 02-14-2013
Code:
if grep -q "Schema Area" file &&
   grep -q stock         file &&
   grep -q route_drop    file && 
   grep -q test123       file
then   
  echo correct
else
  echo incorrect
fi

What does the input file look like?
# 6  
Old 02-14-2013
You can do this in one pass in awk, setting flags for each pattern, discarding input and testing the flags at eof.
# 7  
Old 02-15-2013
sorry I dont have the use of nawk or grep with the -q switch

egrep -v wouldn't get what Im looking for as it wouldnt highlight any errors

sorry I only have limited knowledge of awk and sed so Im not sure how I would use them in this case

What I am looking for is by using grep or egrep or any other command to search though a file for expression1|expression2|expression3 etc... and if it can't find one of the expressions output an error along the lines of "can't find expression1". If it does find the expression in the file then do nothing and output nothing.

Thankyou for all your help so far people Smilie

---------- Post updated at 04:05 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:01 AM ----------

the input file looks like this and carries on:


Code:
 Area Name: Schema Area
Size: 77823936, Records/Block: 64, Area Number: 6
Area Name: stock
Size: 1024192, Records/Block: 64, Area Number: 100
Area Name: route_drop
Size: 4096768, Records/Block: 256, Area Number: 101
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