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Old 04-10-2008
awk search and print .doc extensions
Hello,

I'm trying to grab all lines in a file that match the extension using the following command:

awk '/.doc/' Input.csv > WordFiles.dat

This works, but if a line contains "doc" it still prints the line. I want to print only the lines with ".doc"

Can someone show how to pick up only ".doc"

thanks
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Old 04-10-2008
In a regular expression, just a dot means any character. Backslash it to get the literal meaning.

You might want to make the regular expression even more constrained (say, require there to be no alphabetic after the "doc").

awk is overkill, this is a typical grep problem.

Code:
grep '\.doc' input.csv >WordFiles.dat

 
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