On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:02:47AM +0900, Youichi Mano wrote: > ------------------------ > a 1957 111 > b 1902 222 > c 2001 111 > ------------------------ > > i.e. the output will be > ---------------- > a 1957 111 > c 2001 111 > ----------------
grep -E '^[a-z]+[[:space:]]+[0-9]+[[:space:]]+111$' < yourfile ? i think what might be slowing it down is the -P you're passing to grep. hth, sean
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