Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I want to use egrep to match this expression in my file. The expression begins with the word SCHEDULE and ends with PFTDGNIN. In between these 2 words there can be anything.

EX: Line1: SCHEDULE NWERRR#PFTDGNIN
Line2: FOLLOWS NWD@AAS#PFTDGNIN

So as a result of the egrep command ONLY line 1 needs to be returned.

How can I do that.

Thanks

I'm sure a google for regexp and egrep would answer the question

But given Unix manuals tend to assume you know the answer already :-P

you need to separate the two parts of the egrep by the one or more regexp. In this case egrep 'SCHEDULE.*PFTDGNIN' would work but given you should be able to do your homework yourself there's another bit you need to do.