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Hi

I am a little stuck using grep. I want to be able to find from a file all lines which have the sequence of characters t, followed by any character, followed by the characters ing.

I have tried looking at the man pages for help, but did not understand it correctly (as it is not the most helpful manual)

Thank you if you can help. Also if you have a tutorial on grep would you give me a link to it please.

Thanks.

Code:

>grep "t[a-z]ing" myfile

Thanks, and would

Code:

grep '[thing][talking][tring][ting]

find in a file the things above?

Thanks if you can help.

This isn't the most efficient way to do it, but it will force the First character in the line to be "t", and the last three characters do be "ing".

Code:

grep ^t /path_to_file/file | grep ing$

I'm not sure if it answered my second question, but is the method below the way to find from a file all lins which contain the sequence of characters thing, talking, tring and ting?

Code:

grep '[thing][talking][tring][ting]'

Code:

grep 't.*ing'

Use a dot to match any single character, except a newline:

Code:

grep 't.ing'

A useful tutorial to understand regular expressions:

Regular Expressions

Regards

So you are saying to find thing, talking, tring and ting, withing a file, I should use the following:

Code:

grep 't.ing' myFile

kind of confusing, it doesn't seem like this is the answer!
Any help would be great if you can explain it.