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[nycphp-talk] [OT] grep assistance

Jon Baer jonbaer at jonbaer.com
Fri Sep 29 00:23:11 EDT 2006


He is right, awk for a number range works wonders ...

echo "123" | awk '//{n=$1;if(n>100 && n<200)print}'

- Jon

On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Paul Houle wrote:

> Peter Sawczynec wrote:
>> 62[8-9]|6[3-9][0-9]|7[0-8][0-1]
>>
>> Using your clues, above will match 628 through 781 only, correct?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>    No,  it doesn't match 779.  This is why awk is a better way to do
> this than grep...  It's too hard to understand what these regexes  
> do and
> too easy to make a mistake writing them.
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