Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:20:09 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: mbettinger@championelevators.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT sed help Message-ID: <20020919152009.GA379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <200209190938.35632.matt@championelevators.com> References: <200209190938.35632.matt@championelevators.com>
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# matt@championelevators.com / 2002-09-19 09:38:33 -0500:
> 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?
untested:
% grep -En '^\w{9,}' yourfile
--
begin 666 nonexistent.vbs
FreeBSD 4.7-RC
5:15PM up 2 days, 30 mins, 24 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
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