orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) (06/25/91)
I have been trying to make egrep search for words which are enclosed in apostrophes, for example 'hello'. I can't seem to get this to work. Will some kind soul tell me how to do this? I am running Microport System V/386 rev 3. Thanks. Orville. -------------------------------------- ****************************** Orville R. Weyrich, Jr., Ph.D. Certified Systems Professional Internet: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net Weyrich Computer Consulting Voice: (602) 391-0821 POB 5782, Scottsdale, AZ 85261 Fax: (602) 391-0023 (Yes! I'm available) -------------------------------------- ******************************
dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) (06/25/91)
In article <1991Jun25.074801.517@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes: >I have been trying to make egrep search for words which are enclosed in >apostrophes, for example 'hello'. > egrep "'hello'" filename or egrep \'hello\' filename
jrw@mtune.att.com (Jim Webb) (06/26/91)
In article <1991Jun25.074801.517@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes: >I have been trying to make egrep search for words which are enclosed in >apostrophes, for example 'hello'. > >I can't seem to get this to work. egrep "'.*'" filename works for me on SVR3. ---Jim
mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) (07/01/91)
In article <1991Jun25.074801.517@weyrich.UUCP>, orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes: > I have been trying to make egrep search for words which are enclosed > in apostrophes, for example 'hello'. > I can't seem to get this to work. egrep \''[^'\'']*'\' or perhaps less confusingly, egrep "'[^']*'" where I am assuming you want to require that the word itself not contain any 's. Your problem is unlikely to be with egrep; more likely it's shell quoting conventions tripping you up. Decide what regex you want to pass to egrep, then play with echo until you get the quoting right so that your regex gets through intact. If egrep doesn't like it *then*, you may have problems. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu