topic Re: Quick grep format question in Operating System - HP-UX

Quick grep format question

Pamela J Goodwin — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:16:15 GMT

All - I need some help.

I want to use grep to copy all the words in a file which have uppercase letters into another file.

I just want the uppercase words themselves, not the entire line.

Can someone give me the command?

I'd appreciate it.

Thanks !

Re: Quick grep format question

Robin Wakefield — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:44:46 GMT

Hi Pamela,

If you want each word on a separate line:

for word in `cat {filename}`;do
echo $word | grep [A-Z]
done

Rgds, Robin.

Re: Quick grep format question

Andreas Voss — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:11:36 GMT

Hi,

here a little correction:

for word in `cat `
do
echo $word | grep '[[:upper:]]'
done > newfile

Regards

Re: Quick grep format question

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:38:21 GMT

Hi Pamela:

I'll add one new twist, too. I'm going to assume words might have upper and lower case letters just like in a sentence. I will assume too that you want only those words where ALL letters appear in uppercase and that they may appear with a trailing comma or period. Thus:

for WORD in `cat myfile`
do
echo $WORD||grep '^[A-Z,.]*$'
done > mynewfile

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Quick grep format question

Pamela J Goodwin — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:02:15 GMT

Thank You Everyone !

You've all come through for me like gangbusters.

Best Regards,
Pamela Goodwin