Question regarding grep 2,6,3 regular expression looking for lines without something in a part of a line
Eric Blake
eblake@redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 14:24:00 GMT 2014
On 10/08/2014 08:00 AM, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> I am using an older version of cygwin on a Windows 7 PC.
> I have a file of data that is formatted in character separated value format.
> For example, a couple of lines might be:
>
> "Doe, John";"Student";"Senior"
> "Admin";"Staff";
>
> Now, I want to perform a grep that returns lines that do not have a
> comma in the "first column" of data.
>
> I tried the obvious
> grep '^"[^,"]";' file.csv
That looks for lines containing a literal quote, then exactly one quoted
character that is neither comma nor quote, then another literal quote.
You forgot the *:
'^"[^,"]*";'
Your question is not cygwin-specific.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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