I need to grep for values with + or - symbol
eg: -3 or +3
I tried the following , doesnt help me
$ echo $accessTime | grep "^((\+)|(\-))[0-9]+$"
$ echo $accessTime | grep "+[0-9]+"
$ echo $accessTime | grep "\+[0-9]+"
$ echo $accessTime | grep "'+'[0-9]+"
$ echo $accessTime | grep "^'\+'[0-9]+"
$ echo $accessTime | grep "^(\+)[0-9]+"
$ echo $accessTime | grep "^(\+)[0-9]+"
Can you guys pls help me ....Im learning bash for past few days only..Thanks
Its easier than what you think, you should try
echo $accessTime | grep [+-]
You can use:
accessTime='+3'
echo "$accessTime" | grep "+[0-9]\+"
+3
Quantifier + needs to be escaped in normal grep and literal + must not be escaped.
With grep -E it is exactly reverse:
echo "$accessTime" | grep -E "\+[0-9]+"
+3
Quantifier + must not be escaped in grep -E (extended regex) and literal + . needs to be escaped.
Related
I have a string,
var=refs/heads/testing/branch
I want to get rid of refs/heads/ in the string using shell script, such that I have only:
var=testing/branch
Commands I tried (one per line):
echo $(var) | awk -F\\ {'print $2'}
echo $var | sed -e s,refs/heads/,,
echo "refs/heads/testing/branch" | grep -oP '(?<=refs/heads/\)\w+'
echo "refs/heads/testing/branch" | LC_ALL=C sed -e 's/.*\\//'
echo "refs/heads/testing/branch" | cut -d'\' -f2
echo refs/heads/testing/branch | sed -e s,refs/heads/,,
there are lots of options out there ,try easy ones:
echo $var | cut -d "/" -f 3,4
echo $var | awk -F"/" '{print $3"/"$4}'
Shell parameter expansion: remove the prefix "refs/heads/" from the variable contents
$ var=refs/heads/testing/branch
$ echo "${var#refs/heads/}"
testing/branch
wc -l file.txt
outputs number of lines and file name.
I need just the number itself (not the file name).
I can do this
wc -l file.txt | awk '{print $1}'
But maybe there is a better way?
Try this way:
wc -l < file.txt
cat file.txt | wc -l
According to the man page (for the BSD version, I don't have a GNU version to check):
If no files are specified, the standard input is used and no file
name is
displayed. The prompt will accept input until receiving EOF, or [^D] in
most environments.
To do this without the leading space, why not:
wc -l < file.txt | bc
Comparison of Techniques
I had a similar issue attempting to get a character count without the leading whitespace provided by wc, which led me to this page. After trying out the answers here, the following are the results from my personal testing on Mac (BSD Bash). Again, this is for character count; for line count you'd do wc -l. echo -n omits the trailing line break.
FOO="bar"
echo -n "$FOO" | wc -c # " 3" (x)
echo -n "$FOO" | wc -c | bc # "3" (√)
echo -n "$FOO" | wc -c | tr -d ' ' # "3" (√)
echo -n "$FOO" | wc -c | awk '{print $1}' # "3" (√)
echo -n "$FOO" | wc -c | cut -d ' ' -f1 # "" for -f < 8 (x)
echo -n "$FOO" | wc -c | cut -d ' ' -f8 # "3" (√)
echo -n "$FOO" | wc -c | perl -pe 's/^\s+//' # "3" (√)
echo -n "$FOO" | wc -c | grep -ch '^' # "1" (x)
echo $( printf '%s' "$FOO" | wc -c ) # "3" (√)
I wouldn't rely on the cut -f* method in general since it requires that you know the exact number of leading spaces that any given output may have. And the grep one works for counting lines, but not characters.
bc is the most concise, and awk and perl seem a bit overkill, but they should all be relatively fast and portable enough.
Also note that some of these can be adapted to trim surrounding whitespace from general strings, as well (along with echo `echo $FOO`, another neat trick).
How about
wc -l file.txt | cut -d' ' -f1
i.e. pipe the output of wc into cut (where delimiters are spaces and pick just the first field)
How about
grep -ch "^" file.txt
Obviously, there are a lot of solutions to this.
Here is another one though:
wc -l somefile | tr -d "[:alpha:][:blank:][:punct:]"
This only outputs the number of lines, but the trailing newline character (\n) is present, if you don't want that either, replace [:blank:] with [:space:].
Another way to strip the leading zeros without invoking an external command is to use Arithmetic expansion $((exp))
echo $(($(wc -l < file.txt)))
Best way would be first of all find all files in directory then use AWK NR (Number of Records Variable)
below is the command :
find <directory path> -type f | awk 'END{print NR}'
example : - find /tmp/ -type f | awk 'END{print NR}'
This works for me using the normal wc -l and sed to strip any char what is not a number.
wc -l big_file.log | sed -E "s/([a-z\-\_\.]|[[:space:]]*)//g"
# 9249133
So I have an expression that I want to extract some lines from a text and count them. I can grep them as follows:
$ cat medsCounts_totals.csv | grep -E 'NumMeds": 0' | wc -l
Which is fine. Now I want to loop over with the string ...
$ for i in {0..10}; do expr="NumMeds\": $i"; echo $expr; done
However, when I try to use $expr
for i in {0..10}; do expr="NumMeds:\" $i"; cat medsCounts_totals.csv | grep -E "$expr" | wc -l ; done
I get nothing. How do I solve this problem in an elegant manner?
there is a typo in
for i in {0..10}; do expr="NumMeds:\" $i"; cat medsCounts_totals.csv | grep -E "$expr" | wc -l ; done
it should be
"NumMeds\": $i"
I'm trying to make a small function that removes all the chars that are not digits.
123a45a ---> will become ---> 12345
I've came up with :
temp=$word | grep -o [[:digit:]]
echo $temp
But instead of 12345 I get 1 2 3 4 5. How to I get rid of the spaces?
Pure bash:
word=123a45a
number=${word//[^0-9]}
Here's a pure bash solution
var='123a45a'
echo ${var//[^0-9]/}
12345
is this what you are looking for?
kent$ echo "123a45a"|sed 's/[^0-9]//g'
12345
grep & tr
echo "123a45a"|grep -o '[0-9]'|tr -d '\n'
12345
I would recommend using sed or perl instead:
temp="$(sed -e 's/[^0-9]//g' <<< "$word")"
temp="$(perl -pe 's/\D//g' <<< "$word")"
Edited to add: If you really need to use grep, then this is the only way I can think of:
temp="$( grep -o '[0-9]' <<< "$word" \
| while IFS= read -r ; do echo -n "$REPLY" ; done
)"
. . . but there's probably a better way. (It uses grep -o, like your solution, then runs over the lines that it outputs and re-outputs them without line-breaks.)
Edited again to add: Now that you've mentioned that you use can use tr instead, this is much easier:
temp="$(tr -cd 0-9 <<< "$word")"
What about using sed?
$ echo "123a45a" | sed -r 's/[^0-9]//g'
12345
As I read you are just allowed to use grep and tr, this can make the trick:
$ echo "123a45a" | grep -o [[:digit:]] | tr -d '\n'
12345
In your case,
temp=$(echo $word | grep -o [[:digit:]] | tr -d '\n')
tr will also work:
echo "123a45a" | tr -cd '[:digit:]'
# output: 12345
Grep returns the result on different lines:
$ echo -e "$temp"
1
2
3
4
5
So you cannot remove those spaces during the filtering, but you can afterwards, since $temp can transform itself like this:
temp=`echo $temp | tr -d ' '`
$ echo "$temp"
12345
This can be so easy to a people who know. I am almost finishing this command
echo VERSION=1.0 | sed 's/^VERSION=\([0-9]\).\([0-9]\)/VERSION=\1.\2+1/'
I only want to write VERSION=1.1 . How can I evaluate \2 to integer and sum +1..
of couse sed can do that. that's what e for. you can pass matched/replaced string to shell command using "e"
see the example based on your sed line:
kent$ echo VERSION=1.0 | sed 's/^VERSION=\([0-9]\).\([0-9]\)/echo "VERSION=\1.$((\2+1))"/e'
VERSION=1.1
You can use the bc command:
echo VERSION=`echo "1.0 + 0.1" | bc`
Results in:
VERSION=1.1
man bc
echo "VERSION="`echo "v=1.0; v+=0.1; v" | bc` > myFile.txt
cat myFile.txt
VERSION=1.1
Crpytic answer - how to use the whole toolkit:
x='VERSION=1.0'
echo -n $x | sed 's/\..*/./'; expr `echo $x | grep -o '\..*' | cut -c 2-` + 1