I require a script that grabs some text from the gitHub API and will grep (or other function) for a string a characters that starts with (") quotes followed by two letters, may contain a pipe |, and ending with ) . What i have so far is below but it's not returning anything.
"SomeUser1" ) # Some Name (Some@emailDomain.com)
NewSSHKey="ssh-rsa xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx some@email.com"
;;
"SomeUser2" ) # Some Name (Some@emailDomain.com)
NewSSHKey="ssh-rsa xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx some@email.com"
;;
"SomeUser3" | "alternateUserName3 ) # Some Name (Some@emailDomain.com)
NewSSHKey="ssh-rsa xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx some@email.com"
;;
In summary, what i need is this line:
"UserName" ) # Users Name (Users@e-mailDomain.com)
OR in case of multiple user names i need
"UserName" | SecondaryUserName ) # Users Name (Users@e-mailDomain.com).
In my code above i'm trying to 'grep' for the string that starts with " and eds with ) and may contain a pipe (but may not contain a pipe). I would like the script to print all of the lines containing that string to a text file, is what i have on the right path or am i way off base here?
The main two issues with your grep is that you are looking for a match at the beginning of the line (using ^). There is only one line which has data at the very beginning in your example text, which is the first line. Also you are only looking for two lower case characters.
If your requirement is essentially, look for a " then at least two characters, followed by all sorts of data (which may include a pipe) fololwed by a ) , then you can simply change your grep to:
Code:
grep '\"[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z].*)'
Also just to add, you don't need the cat in there, you can simply pass the file to the grep command so the last line in your script becomes:
"SomeUser3" | "alternateUserName3 ) # Some Name (Some@emailDomain.com)
is missing a closing double quote character.
Don,
While working through Pil's solution i thought the same thing and tried it. Strange thing is when i used this shortened version the grep would skip some lines and ended up pulling some bad lines out of the header. I ended up with this:
Code:
grep '\".*)*#' somefile.txt
Thank you for the reply.
Choco
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Thank you sir! this worked straight away but included some information from the file header. I used it as a template to do this:
While working through Pil's solution i thought the same thing and tried it. Strange thing is when i used this shortened version the grep would skip some lines and ended up pulling some bad lines out of the header. I ended up with this:
Code:
grep '\".*)*#' somefile.txt
Thank you for the reply.
Choco
---------- Post updated at 06:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:20 PM ----------
Thank you sir! this worked straight away but included some information from the file header. I used it as a template to do this:
Code:
grep '\".*)*#' somefile.txt
and it works! Thanks again!
Close. All this RE is matching is a " followed by zero or more other characters followed by zero or more ) followed by a #. I assume you meant to require a ) to be found and followed by zero or more spaces. That would be:
Code:
grep '".*) *#' somefile.txt
If my earlier suggestion didn't match all of the lines you wanted, is it possible that you have some leading <tab> characters instead of spaces on some of the lines you wanted to match? The following would take care of that:
Code:
grep '^[[:space:]]*"' somefile.txt
but, it wouldn't keep it from matching header lines that you didn't want.
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