prz 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
This is not specific to Cygwin in any way, so it's kind of off-topic for this mailing list. I suggest you google for regular expression tutorials, as this is the basis for how grep operates. If it were me I would use grep -P "^\S+\s+yyyy" but there are numerous ways to accomplish this and it would depend on the specifics of the data that you're trying to match. Brian -- 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/
