[plug] Re: grep and regular expressions...

[David Buddrige]

James Elliott writes: 

> Without looking up my notes, aren't you saying by using "$" that you want 
> to look at the end of the line ... but the end of the line is ".html" 
> 

No, I'm saying look for all lines that end in \f in all .htm files.  So I
should get an entry for each line in any .htm file that ends in \f. 

8-) 

cheers 

David. 

> James
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Buddrige" <buddrige at wasp.net.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 11:30 AM
> Subject: [plug] grep and regular expressions... 
> 
> 
>> Hi all, 
>>
>> I have a series of html text files that have the characters \f at the end
> of
>> some of the lines. 
>>
>> I am wanting to run a grep command that will pick up any line in the file
>> that ends with the literal characters " \f"  (that is to say space, slash
> f)
>>
>> I have tried the following grep commands to pull out these lines: 
>>
>>
>> grep "\\f$" *.htm 
>>
>> and 
>>
>> grep "\ \\f$" *.htm 
>>
>> and 
>>
>> grep " \f$" *.htm 
>>
>> grep "f$" *.htm 
>>
>> however none of these match the lines I am after.  Can anyone see what's
>> wrong with my regular expressions? 
>>
>> thanks 
>>
>> David Buddrige. 
>>
>> 
>>
>> the expected start and end times of the plan can be modified<a
>> name="IX_165"></a> \f 
>>
>  
>