Re: help with grep

jammer <bjlockie@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm trying to match 'ABCD 252'.

There is a variable number of spaces before the 2.
The 252 could be any number.

I tried:
grep 'ABCD[:blank:]+[:digit:]+' file

For simple "existence" matching I'd use

grep 'ABCD *[0-9]'

(note the two spaces). There's not need to match any more than one
digit. If you really do need to match the whole sequence of digits:

grep 'ABCD *[0-9][0-9]*'

--
Ben.
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