To HOT to think don't forget to end the regexp stop with a non-digit if you dont P12345<anything> will pass.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Pete Lancashire <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't use the back slash, and use single quotes to force all the > expression to go to egrep directiy > > -pete happy HOT 4th > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have an 851 line data file in which certain lines begin with P >> followed >> by 5 digits. I want to count the number of those lines. Despite reading >> the >> grep man page I am missing the correct syntax. >> >> The expression >> egrep -cE "^P[[:digit:]]\{5\}" hrwq.dat >> returns a count of zero (0). So do variations of options and search >> strings. >> >> What have I missed here? >> >> Happy 4th, all, >> >> Rich >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
