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# 1  
Old 09-29-2008
using grep and to remove all word with uppercase
I try to write a small script that looks in the file tt for all the words that start with m in lowercase and in which there is no uppercase.

#!/bin/sh
grep ^m\.*\.[^A-Z]\.* tt
# 2  
Old 09-29-2008
To find individual words, you need to put all of the owrds into a single column first:
Code:
tr -s ' ' '\n' < file

Next look for words starting with m and with all lower case letters
Pipe the above command into your grep statement, and work from there.
# 3  
Old 09-30-2008
I still have a problem
I still have a problem with my script.
I have the following file tt

m.cc
mA.c.*.l
mm.
mmmmAZETY
moreAs
mriouzoepi.dfgr

and I would like that only
m.cc
mm.
mriouzoepi.dfgr

are printed on the screen. If someone have an idea, then thank you for your help.
# 4  
Old 09-30-2008
To exclude all lines which don't start with lowercase m or which contain uppercase, try

Code:
grep '^m[^A-Z]*$' file

or perhaps

Code:
egrep -v '^m|[A-Z]' file

If I guessed wrong what your criteria are, perhaps you can formulate them here so we don't have to continue to guess.
# 5  
Old 10-01-2008
thank you
thank to your help I could solve my problem
 
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