grep, etc

[Brian K. White]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:08:11PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
>> Fairlight wrote:
>>> Sweet.  I should grab that.  :)  Basically a -useful- egrep.  :)
>>> Well, egrep is useful, but not as useful as it otherwise could be.
>> 
>> I'd say the plain old stock sco grep was useful, since it aswered
>> the need very directly in one command without especially exotic
>> options or a pipeline. Didn't even require the stock egrep let alone
>> gnu grep or pcregrep.
> 
> Well, except that it *didn't* fulfill the requirement of the poster
> who started this thread, without a big ungainly pipline wrapped
> around it. 

What are you talking about?

The stated request was:

sample data:
ISA*00000089** *
CLM*inv123456*a*b*c         -213
SV1*23456*25*A*B            -214

I want to be able to view a range of lines, ie: from -213 to -216

In what way does this fail to meet that request?
grep '-21[3-6]$' file

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