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Old 02-10-2015
Grep : Filter/Move All The Lines Containing Not More Than One "X" Character Into A Text File

Hi All

It's me again with another huge txt files. Smilie

What I have:
- I have 33 huge txt files in a folder.
- I have thousands of line in this txt file which contain many the letter "x" in them.
- Some of them have more than one "x" character in the line.

What I want to achieve:
- Grab all the lines that has not more than one "x". In other words, I just want to have lines that only have one "x" character in it.

It doesn't just have to be using grep cause this isn't school project or challenge.

I've had used many grep command but still my knowledge is not good enough yet. I believe I also have to put "wc" command in this. [I don't know]
Last time I used wc, it was a successful failure. I tried to "mv" all that txt file names that has only one word into another directory & I screwed up big time Smilie So I worry "wc" might not work in this situation just like it doesn't work to search "directory" [Maybe it does, I just don't know]

So here is my slightest clue for this: [it doesn't work]

Code:
find .location -name "*.txt" -exec grep -l 'x' {1} + > Output.txt

# 2  
Old 02-10-2015
Something along the following might help

No more than one x:
Code:
grep -v "x.*x" .location/*.txt

Exactly one x:
Code:
grep x .location/*.txt|grep -v "x.*x"

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Old 02-10-2015
One x:
Code:
grep '^[^x]*x[^x]*$'


Last edited by MadeInGermany; 02-10-2015 at 03:42 AM..
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Old 02-10-2015
Wow! I can't believe I could get reply so fast.

I used:
Code:
grep -v "x.*x" .location/*.txt > output.txt

It worked perfectly! Thank you so much guys! Smilie Smilie

Last edited by Franklin52; 02-10-2015 at 08:45 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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Old 02-10-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nexeu
Wow! I can't believe I could get reply so fast.

I used:

grep -v "x.*x" .location/*.txt > output.txt

It worked perfectly! Thank you so much guys! Smilie Smilie
You say this is working perfectly, but this will add lines from your input files that do not contain any x characters as well as those that contain one x character. Your initial requirements were conflicted as to whether or not lines with no x characters should be copied.

So, do you want lines with no x or not?
# 6  
Old 02-10-2015
Yes, I had noticed there are line without "x" is also included for the first command. At least that removed lines with double "x" or more.

Code:
grep -v "x.*x" .location/*.txt

And for that 2nd, it removed anything but lines with Only one "x".

Code:
grep x .path/*.txt | grep -v "x.*x" > output.txt

I kinda chose first option as I noticed some lines without "x" seems to be what's important. Smilie

But I was wondering if there might be a command with such functionality though:

- It will grep 33 .txt files and find lines without repeated "x" and it will write it into individual 33 .txt output files in a different directory

I have the clue something like this:

Code:
for file in .path/*.txt; do grep -v "x.*x" "${file%.*}.txt" -nobs -width 999 "$file" ; done

BUT, it will do the execution in the same directory. [In other words, I am screwed as the output has same extension and file name Smilie ] Thank god I didn't do that Smilie
# 7  
Old 02-10-2015
You mean something like:
Code:
cd .path;for file in *.txt;do grep 'x' "$file"|grep -v 'x.*x' > /output/directory/"$file";done

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