[TriLUG] how to grep

[Mike Norwood]

Thanks,  

This works for what I need to do.  The cut command didn't work as well 
because I need to get the whole line of data, not just the number.

Thanks again.
Mike


On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg Cox wrote:

> > I need to grep a certain number from a file, but only when it is a certain 
> > location on each line, for example I want to find 12345678901, but only if 
> > it is in position 46 through 56 on each line in the file, not if it is in 
> > any other position.
> 
> cat file | egrep '^.{45}12345678901'
> 
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