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shell grep

Bjay — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:00:57 GMT

I have tesx file now I want to grep only that part of the file which is in " " quotes in the file how can I do that any help

Re: shell grep

Steven Schweda — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:21:30 GMT

This could be easy or more difficult,
depending on exactly what's quoted in the
file. Can you provide a sample?

Re: shell grep

Dennis Handly — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:11:19 GMT

Do you have multiple quote parts on each line?
You could do:
grep '".*stuff.*"' file
But this would find stuff1 and stuff2:
not here " stuff1 " but not stuff2 " more "