Re: Little question grep

2017-01-08 Thread John L. Ries
That strikes me as being just a touch too complex for grep. It may well be doable, but you'll probably have an easier time using AWK (possibly not what you wanted to hear, but it's well worth learning). The object of the game would be to count the number of signs on each line and print only those

Re: Little question grep

2017-01-08 Thread Reco
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 12:40:34 +0300 Reco wrote: > or, if you need whole words (i.e. need to exclude spaces): > > egrep '^[^ ]$' file1 Self-edit. Of course it's: egrep '^[^ ]{5}$' file1 Reco

Re: Little question grep

2017-01-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 10:11:26 +0100 Hans wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a little problem with using grep. > > The problem: > > I have a wordlist with 3,5 Mio words in ASCII. No I want filter out all words > with 5,6, > 7, 8, 9 and 10 signs in seperate lists. The wordlist contains