grep

[Shahul]

Hi Folks

A small doubt regarding grep. I want to grep a line from a file. file goeas like this

skksjdfhglshdfgkdfmn
sdlfghsdklfgksdhfg
sdhgdfgghsdkfg
asd
skdjghkdjfg
aksjfhgkshdfgkdfd

I want to grep the last line. I know that line is starting with a, ending with d and many alphabets in between. how should I?

TIA
Shahul

[Massimo Bianchi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

cat FILE | grep ^a | egrep a.*d

HTH,
Massimo

[Massimo Bianchi]

HI,

even more short:

cat TPURFILE| egrep ^a.*d$


Massimo

[twang]

To find the phase that strating with 'a' and ending with 'e':
# tail -1 |grep 'a*e'

[Ernesto Cappello]

Hi folks


more "filename" | grep ^a |grep d$


Regards.
Ernesto.

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

just one more note: You don't have to use cat here. Just shorten your command to:

egrep "^a*d$" FILE

Regards Stefan

[john korterman]

Hi Shahul,
you could try this:

# grep "^a[a-zA-Z].[a-zA-Z]*d$"

regards,
John K.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Ernesto's reply is completely bogus! You cannot grep the output of more, because it will be cluttered with terminal escapes. more/less/pg/$PAGER/... should *always* be the last command in a chain.

And to throw in some perl :)

# perl -ne'/^a\w*d$/ and print' file

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn