grep, etc

[Brian K. White]

Bill Vermillion wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18 11:38 , Jay R. Ashworth, showing utter disregard for
> spell-checkers gave us this:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:17:23AM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
>>> 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]$' file
>>
>> Well, in the *exact* instance he used as an example, it would work.
>
>> But what happens if he wants -213 through -226?
>
> grep '-2[12][3-6]$' file  :-)

come on, you know better than that
I won't insult you in front of others by actually saying what that misses.
:)

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