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amytys

01-04-2006 03:10 PM

Tricky grep question

I'm trying to return the lines from a file that contain a comma in any of the first 9 characters. Any other characters are fine, as long as there's a comma somewhere in the first 9 characters. This needs to run from a commandline. Any suggestions?

Berhanie

01-04-2006 04:16 PM

How about

Code:

grep "^.\{0,8\}," myfile

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