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# 1  
Old 04-28-2013
Variable string manipulation
Hi, I have a variable with grep output like this:
Code:
WORDS=$(grep -r -c -i -E "palindrom" /"$DIRECTORY"/)

so "echo "$WORDS"" could be:
Code:
//directory/file1.txt:0
//directory/file2.txt:0
//directory/file3.txt:3
//directory/file4.txt:1
//directory/file5.txt:0

I need to "sed" my variable "$WORDS" in order to extract only strings with ":x" with x!=0, i.e. in this case I only want to print:
Code:
//directory/file3.txt:3
//directory/file4.txt:1

Thanks
# 2  
Old 04-28-2013
Code:
WORDS=$(grep -r -c -i -E "palindrom" /"$DIRECTORY"/ | awk -F ':' '$2>0')

This uses awk....
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# 3  
Old 04-28-2013
thanks it work perfectly.
# 4  
Old 04-28-2013
Here is another way, and this could possibly be fitted into your other grep:
Code:
WORDS=$(grep -r -c -i -E "palindrom" /"$DIRECTORY"/ | grep -v ":0$")

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