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awk questions using sort and grep

1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: So i'll probably get told off for this but I have a few problems and rather than clog up the whole forum I'll post them here. Please bare in mind I am a complete novice when it comes to all this and so if you help please treat me like a...

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Sed/grep questions

Hi. I have a txt file. I need to make a copy of the lines which are beginning with a mobile phone number, or a fix phone number. I have to copy thoose lines in numbers.txt, after that i have to delete then from the originally file. In numbers.txt i need to write a prefix before each number. if the...

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Couple of questions wth grep/sort

I have different things that I was trying to do but am kind of struggling with this since I'm a Linux noob. The backround is that I have two files with student names in the same directory, and each file lists the student name, their major and their grade level. What is the most efficient way to...

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grep and sed exact match questions

This was mistaken as homework in a different forum, but is not. These are questions that are close to what I am trying to do at work. QUESTION1: How do you grep only an exact string. I am using Solaris10 and do not have any GNU products installed. Contents of car.txt CAR1_KEY0 CAR1_KEY1...

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Some questions about grep/awk

Hi guys. I need to filter some values from a number of log files. One of the files is: Interconnect Utilisation Results: Achieved Maximum Number of Concurrent Connections: 17 Statistics for Average Number of Concurrent Connections: Point Estimation: Confidence Interval: ...

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Grep questions

Hello All, I have few of questions related to Grep given below: 1. Like Perl, is it possible in Grep to negate characters in square brackets. For example in Perl, if '^' is used inside '' then it acts as a negation characters. Can same be achieved through Grep's regular expression. 2. How...

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Questions on GREP command

Hi, Is it possible to display a specific number of lines starting from a line having a particular text using grep command? e.g. I have a text file with the contents below: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF I want to display 3 lines starting with the line having "BBB" to get the result below:...

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grep questions

I have the data file: A 1 2 3 BBB 4 5 6 A 7 8 9 I want to grep "A" then-skip a line-then-add two sublines: I my command: grep +3 "A" datafile

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Unpratical SED and GREP questions

Hello every one, I have read a little about SED and GREP but I do not know how to do this: Using SED or GREP: "reverse all three letter words" "replace the last two digits in any string of digits by zeros (0)" "remove lines that start and end with the same word" and I have more like...

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Simple grep questions

Hi all, My boss wants me to find out how often e-m users are accessing their account:confused:. The mail server keeps log of all logins. I want to use grep the 'usernames', but it should come out the moment it first encounters the username in the log. Can I do that? I want to avoid 10+ greps...

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