regular expressions ~ white spaces

stevie_velvet · 07-14-2006, 01:54 PM

this should be simple but it driving me....
i'm using grep -e (or egrep to only find 'ted-1' ~ but the white space isn't wokirng

from the file
ted-1 ted-11 ted-111

grep -e "ted-1[\s]" file

ta for any help

Hobbletoe · 07-14-2006, 02:22 PM

The grep command is usually used to pull the entire line out of a file. The sed command might be better for this as you can pull out just a specific part of the line. You could use grep to find the line in the file, then use sed to pull out the section that you want. I've been looking at it, but my sed skills aren't all that great.

homey · 07-14-2006, 02:30 PM

How about grep -o ?

Code:

grep -o "ted-1 " file.txt

stevie_velvet · 07-15-2006, 11:28 AM

thanks both! i'll look up the -o option
it's to simple

both solutions search for the spcific occureence

grep -w "ted-1" file
grep "ted-1\b" file

i had the wrong regular expression