On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Robin Atwood
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service scripts
>> that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a line like:
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>> provide dns
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>> i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text "provide",
>> followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have come up with:
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>> grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d
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> Right now you are saying: match one or more spaces in the begining
> followed by provide followed by one or more spaces followed by *one*
> word followed by one space and followed by /etc/init.d
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> I think you mean: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w+ /etc/init.d
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>> but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?
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I see your mistake....\w means alphanumeric character, not word.
>> TIA
>> -Robin
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