Re: grep: match i to j occurences of abc

From: Erik Max Francis (max_at_alcyone.com)
Date: 08/30/03

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    "Kurt J. Lanza" wrote:

    > Grep is the wrong tool. You are trying to match between 3 and 5
    > occurrences of the letter 'c'. That's why the man page refers to a
    > 'character'. (Duh.) Try 'awk' instead. I'm much to lazy to figure out
    > the details.

    It works fine with a pattern and egrep; on the contrary, grep is exactly
    the right tool for the job. (Duh on you.) The regular expression he
    wants is:

            grep '^(abc ?){3,5}$' test 

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