grep and words

[Brian Dessent]

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

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