grep, etc

[Brian K. White]

Bob Stockler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:13:33PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
>>
>> grep '-21[3-6]$' file
>>
>>
>> Those are single right quotes.
>> It works even if the matching records are not in numerical order and
>> if a non-matching record happens to have "-214" somewhere in the
>> other data before the end of the line.
>
> You win.
>
> Bob


Honestly, I hadn't read the other replies yet at the time I replied, so I
wasn't on a one-up drive.

I was pleased to see everyone else working so hard though.
And I won't say I've never done the "I know I can do better than that"
thing. :)

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