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Subject:	Re: grep and words
From:	Jim Easton <jim AT cs DOT ualberta DOT ca>
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Date:	Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:12:21 -0600 (MDT)
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Hi,

Guy Przytula wrote:
> > another question from newbie ..
> > is it possible with grep to select only the rows where the second word
> > applies, because the pattern can occur at different places like :
> > row 1 : xxxx yyyy zzz
> > row 2 : yyyy xxxx zzz
> > I need only the row where word 2 = yyyy
> > grep yyyy would also return row 2
> > Thanks for all info
> > Best Regards, Guy Przytula

As others have pointed out this is hardly a cygwin question and
there are lots of ways of doing it.  However here is one that fits
your sample data (note: it uses egrep and that I've added a couple
of test lines):

HTH
	Jim

#!/bin/sh

egrep '.*  *yyyy ' <<'END'
xxxx yyyy zzz
yyyy xxxx zzz
xxxx   yyyy zzz
xxxx   yyyyf zzz
END

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