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Friday 9 September 2011

Interval Regular expressions:

Interval Regular expressions: These are used to mention no of character/character set reputation info. Note that interval regular expression and extended reg require -E option with grep

Note:In order to use this set of regular expressions you have to us -E with grep command and -r option with sed commands

{n} --n occurrence of previous character {1,3} - 1 to 3 times occurrence of previous character {5, } --5 or more occurrence of previous character.


Example 1: Find all the files which contain “t” and repeats for 3 times consecutively.ls -l | grep -E t\{3\}


-E option is used to extend regexp understanding for grep.
Example 2: Find all the files which contain l letter in filename with 1 occurrence to 3 occurrencels -l | grep -E l\{1,3\}


Example 3: Find all the files which contains k 5 and more in a file.ls -l | grep -E k\{5,\}


This is bit tricky, let me explain this. Actually we given a range i.e 5 to infinity(Just given only comma after 5).

3)Extended regular expressions: These regular expressions extend the regular expression features.

Note:In order to use this set of regular expressions you have to us -E with grep command and -r option with sed commands+ --one more occurrence of previous character | -- or option, we can specify either a character to present in the pattern. ? -- 0 or one occurrence of previous character () -- grouping of character set.


Example 1: Find all the files which contains f, one more occurrences.ls -l | grep -E f+


Example 2: Find all the files which may contain a or b in its file namels -l | grep -E a|b


Example 3: Find all the files which may contain tls -l | grep -E t?


for example i have below files

test

best
see
do

Note: My grep output contain all these files though see and do files do not contain t, the is because we given ? which will search for 0 or 1 occurrence of previous character. See and do contains 0 t’s in its name, so it will find these files too.

Example 4: Find all the files which contains ab in the sequencels -l | grep -E \(ab\)


This will give all the files which contains ab in the filename.

Please stay tuned to our next article on grep command and how to use it.

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