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Old 11-14-2011, 05:43 AM   #1
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vowels grep command


Hey.!
I have a file f3.txt
It contains --
The American Revolution.
This is the best solution to the problem
PanAmerica Capital Group
the american people
ddd
United States of America
america
the brown fox jumped over a lazy dog.
Creative thinking
I want to write a command using grep to list all the lines that contain words having exactly 1 vowel.
??
 
Old 11-14-2011, 05:47 AM   #2
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It seems that this has to be homework, and we are not here to do your work for you. We can help with specific queries, but we are not going to spoon feed you answers. Thanks.
 
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Old 11-14-2011, 05:49 AM   #3
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What have you tried so far?
 
Old 11-14-2011, 06:02 AM   #4
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What have you tried so far?
i tried using
grep -iw ".\?[aeiou]\?" f3.txt
the problem that i'm having is that when i type in the above command it searches for a specific number of letters in a word.
I want it to work for any word(having any number of letters) that fits my condition.
 
Old 11-14-2011, 07:18 AM   #5
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The meaning of ".\?[aeiou]\?" is:
  1. 0 or 1 of any character
  2. 0 or 1 of any vowel
You want a pattern that matches:
  1. Any number of non-vowels
  2. 1 vowel
  3. Any number of non-vowels
That would match:
Code:
The American Revolution.
This is the best solution to the problem
the american people
United States of America
the brown fox jumped over a lazy dog.
 
Old 11-14-2011, 12:21 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by catkin View Post
You want a pattern that matches:
  1. Any number of non-vowels
  2. 1 vowel
  3. Any number of non-vowels
I'd like to make a slight amendment to this list:
  1. Start of a word
  2. Any number of non-vowels
  3. 1 vowel
  4. Any number of non-vowels
  5. End of a word

The regex required for this is not difficult. You should also read through grep's man and info pages for details on its usage and features.
 
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Old 11-14-2011, 02:22 PM   #7
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thanks i got it..!
 
Old 11-14-2011, 02:23 PM   #8
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I agree ,Chris.
i just wanted some hint or suggestion on how to approach the question and not to spoon feed me.
Thanks anyways.
 
Old 11-14-2011, 02:24 PM   #9
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I'd like to make a slight amendment to this list
I believe grep's -w option (which the OP is using) addresses your concern.
 
Old 11-14-2011, 02:28 PM   #10
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I believe grep's -w option (which the OP is using) addresses your concern.
Yea.! .. Also, instead of ? wildcard, * wildcard should be used.
 
Old 11-14-2011, 09:52 PM   #11
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If you have solved it, would you like to post your solution in case anybody has a similar question?

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Old 11-15-2011, 10:55 AM   #12
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Oddly enough, I get different results when I use word boundries and -w.

(I hope it's ok to post what I have now)

Code:
$ egrep '\<[^aeiou]*[aeiou][^aeiou]*\>' file
The American Revolution.
This is the best solution to the problem
the american people
United States of America
the brown fox jumped over a lazy dog.


$ echo "$text" | egrep -iw '[^aeiou]*[aeiou][^aeiou]*'
The American Revolution.
This is the best solution to the problem
the american people
United States of America
the brown fox jumped over a lazy dog.
I cannot figure out why it's not matching every single-vowel word in the second case.
 
Old 11-15-2011, 11:06 AM   #13
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How do you know which words it is matching?
 
Old 11-15-2011, 01:00 PM   #14
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With the --color option, sorry. I have it set through the GREP_OPTIONS shell variable, and didn't think to include it when posting here.
 
Old 11-16-2011, 12:45 AM   #15
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Both forms of the egrep command give the same output here:
Code:
c@CW8:/tmp$ egrep --color=auto '\<[^aeiou]*[aeiou][^aeiou]*\>' f3.txt 
[snip]
c@CW8:/tmp$ egrep --color=auto -iw '\<[^aeiou]*[aeiou][^aeiou]*\>' f3.txt 
[snip]
c@CW8:/tmp$ env | grep GREP
c@CW8:/tmp$ grep --version
GNU grep 2.5.4
[snip]
 
  


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