Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:53:10 +0200 From: "Len Conrad" <lconrad@Go2France.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <200904082253.AA2466447562@mail.Go2France.com>
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We need to print a line when the 3rd field (with trailing ";" delimiter) is, eg, exactly 5 lower case characters
awk ' $3 ~ /^[a-z]{5,5};$/ {print $0} ' file
... doesn't work.
Suggestions?
thanks
Len
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