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I am having trouble figuring out where to place the in this command. 



grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" input.txt > output.txt


I'm searching for each line that starts with a D and ends with A1, A2, or A3, which is at the end of the line.






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  • Try the -E option.

    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Jan 25 at 23:23






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    For this particular case, you could use a simple character range ^D.*A[1-3]$

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I am having trouble figuring out where to place the in this command. 



grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" input.txt > output.txt


I'm searching for each line that starts with a D and ends with A1, A2, or A3, which is at the end of the line.






command-line grep regex







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  • Try the -E option.

    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Jan 25 at 23:23






  • 1





    For this particular case, you could use a simple character range ^D.*A[1-3]$

    – steeldriver
    Jan 26 at 2:09














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I am having trouble figuring out where to place the in this command. 



grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" input.txt > output.txt


I'm searching for each line that starts with a D and ends with A1, A2, or A3, which is at the end of the line.






command-line grep regex







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I am having trouble figuring out where to place the in this command. 



grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" input.txt > output.txt


I'm searching for each line that starts with a D and ends with A1, A2, or A3, which is at the end of the line.






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  • Try the -E option.

    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Jan 25 at 23:23






  • 1





    For this particular case, you could use a simple character range ^D.*A[1-3]$

    – steeldriver
    Jan 26 at 2:09



















  • Try the -E option.

    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Jan 25 at 23:23






  • 1





    For this particular case, you could use a simple character range ^D.*A[1-3]$

    – steeldriver
    Jan 26 at 2:09

















Try the -E option.

– Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Jan 25 at 23:23





Try the -E option.

– Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Jan 25 at 23:23




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1





For this particular case, you could use a simple character range ^D.*A[1-3]$

– steeldriver
Jan 26 at 2:09





For this particular case, you could use a simple character range ^D.*A[1-3]$

– steeldriver
Jan 26 at 2:09










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You just needed to escape the or bars - you were almost there:



grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"


Note you can also use egrep instead of all the escapes:



egrep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"





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    You need to escape the pipes (|).



    $ grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
    
DA1
    
DA2
    
DA3


    Or use option -E for extended regex, then you don't need to escape anything.



    $ grep -E "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
    
DA1
    
DA2
    
DA3





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    • We can use also -P instead of -E and this is really useful in some cases, see: Grep -E, Sed -E - low performance, but why?

      – pa4080
      Jan 26 at 14:36





















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    Here is sed implementation, that uses the combination of the option -n and the command p:





    sed -rn '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
    





    sed -n '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
    





    sed -n '/^D.*A[1-3]$/p' in-file



    • option -r, --regexp-extended: use extended regular expressions in the script.


    • option -n, --quiet, --silent: suppress automatic printing of pattern space.


    • command p: print the current pattern space.







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      You just needed to escape the or bars - you were almost there:



      grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"


      Note you can also use egrep instead of all the escapes:



      egrep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"





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        You just needed to escape the or bars - you were almost there:



        grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"


        Note you can also use egrep instead of all the escapes:



        egrep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"





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          You just needed to escape the or bars - you were almost there:



          grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"


          Note you can also use egrep instead of all the escapes:



          egrep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"





          share|improve this answer













          You just needed to escape the or bars - you were almost there:



          grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"


          Note you can also use egrep instead of all the escapes:



          egrep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$"






          share|improve this answer












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              You need to escape the pipes (|).



              $ grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
              
DA1
              
DA2
              
DA3


              Or use option -E for extended regex, then you don't need to escape anything.



              $ grep -E "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
              
DA1
              
DA2
              
DA3





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              • We can use also -P instead of -E and this is really useful in some cases, see: Grep -E, Sed -E - low performance, but why?

                – pa4080
                Jan 26 at 14:36


















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              You need to escape the pipes (|).



              $ grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
              
DA1
              
DA2
              
DA3


              Or use option -E for extended regex, then you don't need to escape anything.



              $ grep -E "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
              
DA1
              
DA2
              
DA3





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              • We can use also -P instead of -E and this is really useful in some cases, see: Grep -E, Sed -E - low performance, but why?

                – pa4080
                Jan 26 at 14:36
















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              You need to escape the pipes (|).



              $ grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
              
DA1
              
DA2
              
DA3


              Or use option -E for extended regex, then you don't need to escape anything.



              $ grep -E "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
              
DA1
              
DA2
              
DA3





              share|improve this answer













              You need to escape the pipes (|).



              $ grep "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
              
DA1
              
DA2
              
DA3


              Or use option -E for extended regex, then you don't need to escape anything.



              $ grep -E "^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$" <(printf 'D%sn' A1 A2 A3)
              
DA1
              
DA2
              
DA3






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              • We can use also -P instead of -E and this is really useful in some cases, see: Grep -E, Sed -E - low performance, but why?

                – pa4080
                Jan 26 at 14:36





















              • We can use also -P instead of -E and this is really useful in some cases, see: Grep -E, Sed -E - low performance, but why?

                – pa4080
                Jan 26 at 14:36



















              We can use also -P instead of -E and this is really useful in some cases, see: Grep -E, Sed -E - low performance, but why?

              – pa4080
              Jan 26 at 14:36







              We can use also -P instead of -E and this is really useful in some cases, see: Grep -E, Sed -E - low performance, but why?

              – pa4080
              Jan 26 at 14:36













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              Here is sed implementation, that uses the combination of the option -n and the command p:





              sed -rn '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
              





              sed -n '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
              





              sed -n '/^D.*A[1-3]$/p' in-file



              • option -r, --regexp-extended: use extended regular expressions in the script.


              • option -n, --quiet, --silent: suppress automatic printing of pattern space.


              • command p: print the current pattern space.







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                Here is sed implementation, that uses the combination of the option -n and the command p:





                sed -rn '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
                





                sed -n '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
                





                sed -n '/^D.*A[1-3]$/p' in-file



                • option -r, --regexp-extended: use extended regular expressions in the script.


                • option -n, --quiet, --silent: suppress automatic printing of pattern space.


                • command p: print the current pattern space.







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                  Here is sed implementation, that uses the combination of the option -n and the command p:





                  sed -rn '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
                  





                  sed -n '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
                  





                  sed -n '/^D.*A[1-3]$/p' in-file



                  • option -r, --regexp-extended: use extended regular expressions in the script.


                  • option -n, --quiet, --silent: suppress automatic printing of pattern space.


                  • command p: print the current pattern space.







                  share|improve this answer















                  Here is sed implementation, that uses the combination of the option -n and the command p:





                  sed -rn '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
                  





                  sed -n '/^D.*(A1|A2|A3)$/p' in-file
                  





                  sed -n '/^D.*A[1-3]$/p' in-file



                  • option -r, --regexp-extended: use extended regular expressions in the script.


                  • option -n, --quiet, --silent: suppress automatic printing of pattern space.


                  • command p: print the current pattern space.








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