using grep command

let says the file 'fileabc' content is

7 friday sept 2007
8 saturday sept 2007
9 sunday sept 2007
10 monday sept 2007
11 tuesday sept 2007
12 wednesday sept 2007
13 thursday sept 2007
14 friday sept 2007

5 friday oct 2007
6 saturday oct 2007
7 sunday oct 2007
8 monday oct 2007
9 tuesday oct 2007
10 wednesday oct 2007
11 thursday oct 2007
12 friday oct 2007

what is the grep command if i want to print a line with combination of text or number in a 'fileabc' ?
lets say i want to find a line that contain 'sept friday 2007'

That's easy.. have you read the man page? Type man grep and take a look, and if that looks too scary Google for a grep tutorial.

That said, if you want to find lines that contain "sept friday 2007" in file "fileabc", it's a simple

grep "sept friday 2007" fileabc

If you want to search case-insensitivly, it's

grep -i "sept friday 2007" fileabc

etc etc.

acctually, friday sept 2007 is not in order. there is some text in between. so is there any other command?

you could try pipeing grep commands together e.g. :
grep friday fileabc|grep sept fileabc|grep 2007 fileabc
Each grep should filter the previous one and at the end it should only return the lines containing all three. I'm sure there's a much cleaner way of passing it to grep...
more fileabc|grep friday|grep sept|grep 2007
and thats probably still long winded.

Apologies if the answers off the mark - I dont have access to a *nix system at the moment, and have been away from linux administration for about 7 years now!

Originally Posted by mruknown1 acctually, friday sept 2007 is not in order. there is some text in between. so is there any other command?

You should also search for a beginner's regular expression tutorial, because we're not here to answer every little question all day, but to help you learn.

grep "sept.+?friday.+?2007" fileabc

because we're not here to answer every little question all day

Sure we are--we do it all the time....

you could try pipeing grep commands together e.g. : grep friday fileabc|grep sept fileabc|grep 2007 fileabc

If you are doing this, I don't think you would repeat the filename in each grep

More readable is:
cat filename|grep friday|grep sept|grep 2007

thanks pam196...
1st command is not too exact. but the 2nd command give what i need. thanks for the command. i'm new to this forum but my 1st impression shows this forum give a +ve feedback very fast. thanks again..

Hello... i need awk/perl script that can calculate packet size.

for example based on this output, each column have their own meaning
column1=send/received, drop,...
column2= timestamp
column3=node
column4=level
column5=flag
column6=packetID
column7=packettype
column8=packetsize
.....
.....

1. How if i want to calculate total PACKETSIZE RECEIVED by NODE 5 with RTR LEVEL and DSR PACKETTYPE .From here i will try to manipulate the script so i can used it in my research.

2. How if i want to extract this output so i can create a new file that print 2 columns (TIMESTAMP and DSR) when NODE 5 RECEIVED DSR PACKETTYPE with RTR LEVEL.

thank you very much for any help...

s 84.456630640 _5_ AGT --- 0 cbr 512 [0 0 0 0] ------- [5:1 6:1 32 0] [0] 0 1
r 84.456630640 _5_ RTR --- 0 cbr 512 [0 0 0 0] ------- [5:1 6:1 32 0] [0] 0 1
s 84.460452677 _5_ RTR --- 1 DSR 32 [0 0 0 0] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 1] [0 1 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 84.461724861 _4_ RTR --- 1 DSR 32 [0 ffffffff 5 800] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 1] [0 1 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 84.461724909 _0_ RTR --- 1 DSR 32 [0 ffffffff 5 800] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 1] [0 1 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 84.461725322 _6_ RTR --- 1 DSR 32 [0 ffffffff 5 800] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 1] [0 1 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 84.461725410 _1_ RTR --- 1 DSR 32 [0 ffffffff 5 800] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 1] [0 1 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 84.461725471 _2_ RTR --- 1 DSR 32 [0 ffffffff 5 800] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 1] [0 1 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
s 84.462207082 _6_ RTR --- 2 DSR 44 [0 0 0 0] ------- [6:255 5:255 254 5] 2 [0 1] [1 1 2 5->6] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 84.466670604 _5_ RTR --- 2 DSR 44 [13a 5 6 800] ------- [6:255 5:255 254 5] 2 [0 1] [1 1 2 5->6] [0 0 0 0->0]
SFESTs 84.466670604 _5_ 0 [5 -> 6] 1(1) to 6 [5 |6 ]
s 84.466670604 _5_ RTR --- 0 cbr 548 [0 0 0 0] ------- [5:1 6:1 32 6] [0] 0 1
r 84.472832542 _6_ RTR --- 0 cbr 548 [13a 6 5 800] ------- [5:1 6:1 32 6] [0] 1 1
r 84.472832542 _6_ AGT --- 0 cbr 512 [13a 6 5 800] ------- [5:1 6:1 32 6] [0] 1 1
s 89.865825846 _5_ AGT --- 3 cbr 512 [0 0 0 0] ------- [5:1 6:1 32 0] [1] 0 2
r 89.865825846 _5_ RTR --- 3 cbr 512 [0 0 0 0] ------- [5:1 6:1 32 0] [1] 0 2
SFESTs 89.865825846 _5_ 3 [5 -> 6] 1(1) to 6 [5 |6 ]
s 89.865825846 _5_ RTR --- 3 cbr 548 [0 0 0 0] ------- [5:1 6:1 32 6] [1] 0 2
SSendFailure 89.907170846 _5_ 3 2 5:1 6:1 5->6 2 2 2 2 [|5 6 ]
s 89.912216246 _5_ RTR --- 4 DSR 32 [0 0 0 0] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 2] [0 2 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 89.913368448 _0_ RTR --- 4 DSR 32 [0 ffffffff 5 800] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 2] [0 2 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
s 89.913368448 _0_ RTR --- 5 DSR 48 [0 0 0 0] ------- [0:255 5:255 255 5] 2 [0 2] [1 2 3 5->6] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 89.913368578 _4_ RTR --- 4 DSR 32 [0 ffffffff 5 800] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 2] [0 2 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
s 89.913368578 _4_ RTR --- 6 DSR 48 [0 0 0 0] ------- [4:255 5:255 255 5] 2 [0 2] [1 2 3 5->6] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 89.913368941 _1_ RTR --- 4 DSR 32 [0 ffffffff 5 800] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 2] [0 2 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
s 89.913368941 _1_ RTR --- 7 DSR 48 [0 0 0 0] ------- [1:255 5:255 255 5] 2 [0 2] [1 2 3 5->6] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 89.913369041 _2_ RTR --- 4 DSR 32 [0 ffffffff 5 800] ------- [5:255 6:255 32 0] 1 [1 2] [0 2 0 0->0] [0 0 0 0->0]
r 89.919259468 _5_ RTR --- 7 DSR 48 [13a 5 1 800] ------- [1:255 5:255 255 5] 2 [0 2] [1 2 3 5->6] [0 0 0 0->0]
SFESTs 89.919259468 _5_ 3 [5 -> 6] 3(1) to 1 [5 |1 6 ]
s 89.919259468 _5_ RTR --- 3 cbr 552 [13a 6 5 800] ------- [5:1 6:1 32

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OK, I'm well bored today...as you've probably already worked this one out for yourself...

1. more filename|grep "^r"|grep "_5_"|grep "RTR"|awk '$7 == "DSR" { sum += $8 } END {print sum} '

the above should get lines beginning with "r" (thats what the ^ does), filter as requested using greps, awk then matches the remaining lines that have DSR in column 7 and adds the content of column 8 to the variable sum. The final output is the total number of column 8.

To redirect output from standard output (terminal screen) to a file, at the end of the command use > filename

2. more filename|grep "^r"|grep "_5_"|grep "RTR"|grep "DSR"|awk ' { print $2 " " $7 } ' > newfilename

Basically that should be it. BTW I put a space in the awk output (print $2 " " $7 ), otherwise awk would cat the two columns together. The space is acheived by the " " .

Hope this helps and that you're learning something...other than to post all questions on a forum before checking out google

awk '$3=="_5_" && $4 == "RTR" && $7 == "DSR" { c=c+$8 }END{print c}' "file"

Originally Posted by pam196 1. more filename|grep "^r"|grep "_5_"|grep "RTR"|awk '$7 == "DSR" { sum += $8 } END {print sum} '

there's no need for "more" and if really want to use grep, why not this

grep "^r.*_5_.*RTR.*DSR" file | awk '.....'