On January 22, 2008 09:40:32 pm Scott Simpson wrote:
> Shell version:
> fgrep 'blah blah blah' file | head -1 | sed 's/^.*:
> \([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\1/' > numberfile
>
> Perl version:
> perl -n -e 'if (/blah blah blah/) { s/^.*: ([0-9]+).*$/$1/; print $_;
> exit(0); }' < file_with_blah > numberfile
>
> Shell version will fork three processes; the Perl version will fork
> one and the Perl version will quit right after it finds the matching
> line.Thanks a lot Scott, Recently I gotta play around with text files too much, hopefully that will make me to start reading some shell scripting soon! Cheers, -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, PhD Student @ Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
