X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: grep and words From: Jim Easton To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:12:21 -0600 (MDT) CC: Jim Easton X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] Message-Id: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/