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# 1  
Old 08-26-2017
Basic grep question
Shell : Bash shell (Fedora 26)

In the below text file (output.txt), I need to find all lines starting with the pattern pc. As you can see, only one line matches this condition (pc hello world).

But, my below 3 attempts return wrong output. How do I use the grep command correctly here ?


Code:
 # cat output.txt
  sunrpc                331776  1
  crct10dif_pclmul       16384  0
  crc32_pclmul           16384  0
  shpchp                 36864  0
  snd_pcm               102400  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
  snd_timer              32768  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
  lpc_ich                24576  0
  pc hello world

  # Attempt1
  # It returns any line with the the pattern pc in it which is not what I want
  # grep 'pc' output.txt
  sunrpc                331776  1
  crct10dif_pclmul       16384  0
  crc32_pclmul           16384  0
  shpchp                 36864  0
  snd_pcm               102400  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
  snd_timer              32768  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
  lpc_ich                24576  0
  pc hello world
  # 


  # Attempt2
  # No output returned at all
  # grep 'pc^' output.txt



  # Attempt3 
  # I think this gives the same wrong output as Attempt1 
  # grep 'pc*' output.txt
  sunrpc                331776  1
  crct10dif_pclmul       16384  0
  crc32_pclmul           16384  0
  shpchp                 36864  0
  snd_pcm               102400  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
  snd_timer              32768  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
  lpc_ich                24576  0
  pc hello world
  #

# 2  
Old 08-26-2017
Normally you would use:
Code:
grep '^pc'

I do not know if the leading spaces are present in the actual file. In that case you would need something like:
Code:
grep '^[[:blank:]]*pc'



--
Note: on Solaris use /usr/xpg4/bin/grep
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# 3  
Old 08-26-2017
Print if the first word is pc (white space delimited)
Code:
awk '$1=="pc"'

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kraljic
# 4  
Old 08-26-2017
You could be right Scrutinizer. All those lines except pc hello world comes from lsmod command in Linux. It could have leading spaces.

Hi MadeInGermany,
What does the 2 equal operators == in your awk solution do ?
# 5  
Old 08-26-2017
In awk the == operator compares two numbers or strings, in this case strings.
If they are equal the result is "true", a non-zero. The default action for a non-zero is {print}.
You can write this more explicit
Code:
awk '$1=="pc" { print }'

or
Code:
awk '{ if ($1=="pc") { print } }'

or even
Code:
awk '{ if ($1=="pc") { print $0 } }'

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