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From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
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Subject: RE: OT sed help
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:55:51 +0100
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Matt:

How about:

grep -E "^\w{9,}," flatfile.txt > morethaneight.txt

 - Barry

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matthew
> Bettinger
> Sent: 19 September 2002 15:39
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: OT sed help
> 
> 
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> Hello,
> 
> I know this is off topic however I hope someone can help.
> 
> I have a flat file that I need to import into a database.  The 
> first field of 
> the file is a part number which cannot exceed more than 8 characters.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can use  sed to count the characters in 
> the first field 
> and if there are more than 8 print out a list?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Matt 
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