I can't get this simple regular expression to work for matching emails: 'w*(?:.w*)*@w*(?:.w*)*w{2,5}'
It should be working as I have tested it with regex pal and it works just fine. I think there's a problem with optional character class but I'm not sure.
I'm writing a program that works with text files, and I'm trying to create some filters with grep. I have various questions here, so I'll number them for clarity.
1) First of all, I'd like to know what wc -w is actually returning. The word count is less than what gedit is counting in Document Statistics, so obviously gedit is counting something (like newlines) that wc -w is not
2) Secondly, I was wondering if there was a way to grep x number of words. I'm looking for something like the -m option, but returning a certain number of words instead of lines. For example, to find the first 2000 words, do something like grep -someoption 2000 ".*" or using {1,2000}.
3) Finally, I'm trying to filter out headers and footers of a text file but having no luck. The text files are Project Gutenberg files, so they have standardized headers and footers. Here's an example: [URL]...
The header starts with "The Project Gutenberg EBook of" and ends with the line containing "START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK" The footers begin with: "End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of" My problem is, grep can find:
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How can I use grep expressions so that i can find strings like the ones bellow:
New York, NY
Virginia, VA
Oregon, OR
As you can see each city starts with capital letter then it follows up with a comma, and then with the Abbreviation of the city. I used :
Code: grep -w '[A-Z].*[a-z][,][' '][A-Z][A-Z]' filename But i get no results.
I am pretty new at this topic but I would like to learn it from example. The first thing I am working on is to modify the command date to be shown as DD/MM/YY only using regular expression but I dont know how to combine what there is in the regexp tutorials online and the syntax for batch scripting. Any help?
Here is what I what.
run a file test: ~# ./test
Where file test is:
#!/bin/bash
#
DATE=$( date )
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Also if you can point me to good regexp tutorials (directed towards batch scripting), that will be great.
As the subject says, can anyone explain to me what is the difference between Regular Expressions and Globbing?
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Feb 11 to Mar 1003Current Year of Mar 10
Mar 11 to Apr 1004Current Year of Apr 10
Apr 11 to May 1005Current Year of May 10
May 11 to June 1006Current Year of June 10
June 11 to July 1007Current Year of July 10
July 11 to Aug 1008Current Year of Aug 10
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Sept 11 to Oct 1010Current Year of Oct 10
Oct 11 to Nov 1011Current Year of Nov 10
Nov 11 to Dec 1012Current Year of Dec 10
Dec 11 to Jan 1001* Current Year of Jan 10
* Note for Dec 11 - Dec 31,
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[code]....
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[code]....
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