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Old 11-15-2009
Display all the lines that contain "Straw" followed somewhere in the line by Hat?
how do i use this in a grep pattern, the output is inventory
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Old 11-15-2009
can you post some sample input lines and expected o/p??
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Old 11-16-2009
the excerise I am doing is the basics of
Regular expressions basics
Literal matching
Character classes
. wildcard
Repetition symbols
Anchoring
Extended Regular Expressions

Advanced filtering using grep/egrep
Search and replace in vi
sed

grep "the two files" inventory

how do i use straw and hat in the same line?? i guess im searching for both in the same string?

---------- Post updated 11-16-09 at 07:24 PM ---------- Previous update was 11-15-09 at 10:09 PM ----------

bump please
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Old 11-16-2009
there are 2 possibilities, put straw in front of hat and hat in front of straw. eg straw.*hat, hat.*straw
 
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