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Old 11-23-2009
Occurrence of two strings in a line of a file
Hi all,
is there a way to find the occurrence of two strings in a line of a file?

e.g. I have
Code:
    XXXX     yyyyy    zzzz 111
    XXXX     yyyyy    zzzz 222
    XXXX     yyyyy    zzzz 333
    XXXX     yyyyy    zzzz 444

and want to find in one shot
Code:
    XXXX     yyyyy    zzzz 222

Thank you,
Sarah
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 02-26-2010 at 01:25 PM.. Reason: added code tags
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Old 11-23-2009
Try:
Code:
awk '/XXXX/ && /222/' < filename

# 3  
Old 11-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by dennis.jacob
Try:
Code:
awk '/XXXX/ && /222/' < filename

can this be made case insensitive (on both strings)? maybe with grep?
# 4  
Old 11-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by f_o_555
can this be made case insensitive (on both strings)? maybe with grep?

Try:

Code:
awk 'toupper($0) ~ /XXXX/ && /222/'  < file

# 5  
Old 11-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by dennis.jacob
Try:

Code:
awk 'toupper($0) ~ /XXXX/ && /222/'  < file

...mmhhh not working... it seems I get no match

could I have, instead of XXXX and 222, two variable in array?
I tried something like

OCCURRENCE=`awk '/blah/ && /${STRING_NAME[1]}/' tmp.tmp1| wc -l`

but it does not work (it does if explicitly use the STRING_NAME value)
Thank you,
Last edited by f_o_555; 11-23-2009 at 11:15 AM..
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Old 11-23-2009
Code:
grep -Ei ^X{4}.*2{3}$ your_file

# 7  
Old 11-24-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by daPeach
Code:
grep -Ei ^X{4}.*2{3}$ your_file

How can I put in two arbitrary strings $STRING1 and $STRING2?

grep -Ei $STRING1.$STRING2 doesn't work
 
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