I want to count the number of matches there is on one single line (or all lines as there always will be only one line).
I want to count not just one match per line as in
echo "123 123 123" | grep -c -E "123" # Result: 1
Better example:
echo "1 1 2 2 2 5" | grep -c -E '([^ ])( \1){1}' # Result: 1, expected: 2 or 3
You could use grep -o then pipe through wc -l:
$ echo "123 123 123" | grep -o 123 | wc -l
3
Maybe below:
echo "123 123 123" | sed "s/123 /123\n/g" | wc -l
( maybe ugly, but my bash fu is not that great )
Maybe you should convert spaces to newlines first:
$ echo "1 1 2 2 2 5" | tr ' ' $'\n' | grep -c 2
3
Why not use awk?
You could use awk '{print gsub(your_regex,"&")}'
to print the number of matches on each line, or
awk '{c+=gsub(your_regex,"&")}END{print c}'
to print the total number of matches. Note that relative speed may vary depending on which awk implementation is used, and which input is given.
This might work for you:
sed -n -e ':a' -e 's/123//p' -e 'ta' file | sed -n '$='
GNU sed could be written:
sed -n ':;s/123//p;t' file | sed -n '$='
Related
I want to find the set of words that contain two consecutive e’s, and also contains two y’s.
So far i got to /eeyy/
Alteration with ERE:
$ echo evyyree | grep -E '.*ee.*yy|.*yy.*ee'
evyyree
$ echo eveeryy | grep -E '.*ee.*yy|.*yy.*ee'
eveeryy
If the match needs to be in the same word, you can do:
$ echo "eee yyyy" | grep -E 'ee[^[:space:]]*yy|yy[^[:space:]]*ee' # no match
$ echo "eeeyyyy" | grep -E 'ee[^[:space:]]*yy|yy[^[:space:]]*ee'
eeeyyyy
Then only that word:
$ echo 'eeeyy heelo' | grep -Eo 'ee[^[:space:]]*yy|yy[^[:space:]]*ee'
eeeyy
Pipe it:
$ echo eennmmyy | grep ee | grep yy
eennmmyy
awk approach to match all words that contain both ee and yy:
s="eennmmyy heello thees-whyy someyy"
echo $s | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if($i~/ee/ && $i~/yy/) print $i}'
The output:
eennmmyy
thees-whyy
The only sensible and extensible way to do this is with awk:
awk '/ee/&&/yy/' file
Imagine trying to do it the grep way if you also had to find zz. Here's awk:
awk '/ee/&&/yy/&&/zz/' file
and here's grep:
grep -E 'ee.*yy.*zz|ee.*zz.*yy|yy.*ee.*zz|yy.*zz.*ee|zz.*yy.*ee|zz.*ee.*yy' file
Now add a 4th additional string to search for and see what that looks like!
I wanted to extract 12 from a text like "abc_12_1". I am trying like this
echo "abc_12_1" | grep -Eo '[a-zA-Z]+_[0-9]+_1'
abc_12_1
But I am not able to select the digit after first _ in string, the output of above command is whole string. I am looking for some alternative in grep which I have in following Perl pattern matching.
perl -e '"abc_55_1" =~ m/[a-zA-Z]+_([0-9]+)_1/ ; print $1'
55
Is it possible with grep?
Using perl:
$ echo "abc_12_1" | perl -lne 'print /_(\d+)_/'
12
or grep:
$ echo "abc_12_1" | grep -oP '(?<=_)\d+(?=_)'
12
You could use cut:
cut -d_ -f2 <<< "abc_12_1"
Using grep:
grep -oP '(?<=_).*?(?=_)' <<< "abc_12_1"
Both would yield 12.
One way is to use awk
echo "abc_12_1" | awk -F_ '{print $2}'
12
Or grep
echo "abc_12_1" | grep -o "[0-9][0-9]"
12
Using grep with extended regex
grep -oE "[0-9]{2}" # Get only hits with two digits
grep -oE "[0-9]{2,}" # Get hits with two or more digits
I want to extract the value pair from a key-value pair syntax but I can not.
Example I tried:
echo employee_id=1234 | sed 's/employee_id=\([0-9]+\)/\1/g'
But this gives employee_id=1234 and not 1234 which is actually the capture group.
What am I doing wrong here? I also tried:
echo employee_id=1234| egrep -o employee_id=([0-9]+)
but no success.
1. Use grep -Eo: (as egrep is deprecated)
echo 'employee_id=1234' | grep -Eo '[0-9]+'
1234
2. using grep -oP (PCRE):
echo 'employee_id=1234' | grep -oP 'employee_id=\K([0-9]+)'
1234
3. Using sed:
echo 'employee_id=1234' | sed 's/^.*employee_id=\([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\1/'
1234
To expand on anubhava's answer number 2, the general pattern to have grep return only the capture group is:
$ regex="$precedes_regex\K($capture_regex)(?=$follows_regex)"
$ echo $some_string | grep -oP "$regex"
so
# matches and returns b
$ echo "abc" | grep -oP "a\K(b)(?=c)"
b
# no match
$ echo "abc" | grep -oP "z\K(b)(?=c)"
# no match
$ echo "abc" | grep -oP "a\K(b)(?=d)"
Using awk
echo 'employee_id=1234' | awk -F= '{print $2}'
1234
use sed -E for extended regex
echo employee_id=1234 | sed -E 's/employee_id=([0-9]+)/\1/g'
You are specifically asking for sed, but in case you may use something else - any POSIX-compliant shell can do parameter expansion which doesn't require a fork/subshell:
foo='employee_id=1234'
var=${foo%%=*}
value=${foo#*=}
$ echo "var=${var} value=${value}"
var=employee_id value=1234
Suppose I have this text
The code for 233-CO is the main reason for 45-DFG and this 45-GH
Now I have this regexp \s[0-9]+-\w+ which matches 233-CO, 45-DFG and 45-GH.
How can I display just the third match 45-GH?
sed -re 's/\s[0-9]+-\w+/\3/g' file.txt
where \3 should be the third regexp match.
Is it mandatory to use sed? You could do it with grep, using arrays:
text="The code for 233-CO is the main reason for 45-DFG and this 45-GH"
matches=( $(echo "$text" | grep -o -m 3 '\s[0-9]\+-\w\+') ) # store first 3 matches in array
echo "${matches[0]} ${matches[2]}" # prompt first and third match
To find the last occurence of your pattern, you can use this:
$ sed -re 's/.*\s([0-9]+-\w+).*/\1/g' file
45-GH
if awk is accepted, there is an awk onliner, you give the No# of match you want to grab, it gives your the matched str.
awk -vn=$n '{l=$0;for(i=1;i<n;i++){match(l,/\s[0-9]+-\w+/,a);l=substr(l,RSTART+RLENGTH);}print a[0]}' file
test
kent$ echo $STR #so we have 7 matches in str
The code for 233-CO is the main reason for 45-DFG and this 45-GH,foo 004-AB, bar 005-CC baz 006-DDD and 007-AWK
kent$ n=6 #now I want the 6th match
#here you go:
kent$ awk -vn=$n '{l=$0;for(i=1;i<=n;i++){match(l,/\s[0-9]+-\w+/,a);l=substr(l,RSTART+RLENGTH);}print a[0]}' <<< $STR
006-DDD
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -r 's/\b[0-9]+-[A-Z]+\b/\n&\n/3;s/.*\n(.*)\n.*/\1/' file
s/\b[0-9]+-[A-Z]+\b/\n&\n/3 prepend and append \n (newlines) to the third (n) pattern in question.
s/.*\n(.*)\n.*/\1/ delete the text before and after the pattern
With grep for matching and sed for printing the occurrence:
$ egrep -o '\b[0-9]+-\w+' file | sed -n '1p'
233-CO
$ egrep -o '\b[0-9]+-\w+' file | sed -n '2p'
45-DFG
$ egrep -o '\b[0-9]+-\w+' file | sed -n '3p'
45-GH
Or with a little awk passing the occurrence to print using the variable o:
$ awk -v o=1 '{for(i=0;i++<NF;)if($i~/[0-9]+-\w+/&&j++==o-1)print $i}' file
233-CO
$ awk -v o=2 '{for(i=0;i++<NF;)if($i~/[0-9]+-\w+/&&j++==o-1)print $i}' file
45-DFG
$ awk -v o=3 '{for(i=0;i++<NF;)if($i~/[0-9]+-\w+/&&j++==o-1)print $i}' file
45-GH
Is there a way to tell sed to output only captured groups?
For example, given the input:
This is a sample 123 text and some 987 numbers
And pattern:
/([\d]+)/
Could I get only 123 and 987 output in the way formatted by back references?
The key to getting this to work is to tell sed to exclude what you don't want to be output as well as specifying what you do want. This technique depends on knowing how many matches you're looking for. The grep command below works for an unspecified number of matches.
string='This is a sample 123 text and some 987 numbers'
echo "$string" | sed -rn 's/[^[:digit:]]*([[:digit:]]+)[^[:digit:]]+([[:digit:]]+)[^[:digit:]]*/\1 \2/p'
This says:
don't default to printing each line (-n)
exclude zero or more non-digits
include one or more digits
exclude one or more non-digits
include one or more digits
exclude zero or more non-digits
print the substitution (p) (on one line)
In general, in sed you capture groups using parentheses and output what you capture using a back reference:
echo "foobarbaz" | sed 's/^foo\(.*\)baz$/\1/'
will output "bar". If you use -r (-E for OS X) for extended regex, you don't need to escape the parentheses:
echo "foobarbaz" | sed -r 's/^foo(.*)baz$/\1/'
There can be up to 9 capture groups and their back references. The back references are numbered in the order the groups appear, but they can be used in any order and can be repeated:
echo "foobarbaz" | sed -r 's/^foo(.*)b(.)z$/\2 \1 \2/'
outputs "a bar a".
If you have GNU grep:
echo "$string" | grep -Po '\d+'
It may also work in BSD, including OS X:
echo "$string" | grep -Eo '\d+'
These commands will match any number of digit sequences. The output will be on multiple lines.
or variations such as:
echo "$string" | grep -Po '(?<=\D )(\d+)'
The -P option enables Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. See man 3 pcrepattern or man 3 pcresyntax.
Sed has up to nine remembered patterns but you need to use escaped parentheses to remember portions of the regular expression.
See here for examples and more detail
you can use grep
grep -Eow "[0-9]+" file
run(s) of digits
This answer works with any count of digit groups. Example:
$ echo 'Num123that456are7899900contained0018166intext' \
| sed -En 's/[^0-9]*([0-9]{1,})[^0-9]*/\1 /gp'
123 456 7899900 0018166
Expanded answer.
Is there any way to tell sed to output only captured groups?
Yes. replace all text by the capture group:
$ echo 'Number 123 inside text' \
| sed 's/[^0-9]*\([0-9]\{1,\}\)[^0-9]*/\1/'
123
s/[^0-9]* # several non-digits
\([0-9]\{1,\}\) # followed by one or more digits
[^0-9]* # and followed by more non-digits.
/\1/ # gets replaced only by the digits.
Or with extended syntax (less backquotes and allow the use of +):
$ echo 'Number 123 in text' \
| sed -E 's/[^0-9]*([0-9]+)[^0-9]*/\1/'
123
To avoid printing the original text when there is no number, use:
$ echo 'Number xxx in text' \
| sed -En 's/[^0-9]*([0-9]+)[^0-9]*/\1/p'
(-n) Do not print the input by default.
(/p) print only if a replacement was done.
And to match several numbers (and also print them):
$ echo 'N 123 in 456 text' \
| sed -En 's/[^0-9]*([0-9]+)[^0-9]*/\1 /gp'
123 456
That works for any count of digit runs:
$ str='Test Num(s) 123 456 7899900 contained as0018166df in text'
$ echo "$str" \
| sed -En 's/[^0-9]*([0-9]{1,})[^0-9]*/\1 /gp'
123 456 7899900 0018166
Which is very similar to the grep command:
$ str='Test Num(s) 123 456 7899900 contained as0018166df in text'
$ echo "$str" | grep -Po '\d+'
123
456
7899900
0018166
About \d
and pattern: /([\d]+)/
Sed does not recognize the '\d' (shortcut) syntax. The ascii equivalent used above [0-9] is not exactly equivalent. The only alternative solution is to use a character class: '[[:digit:]]`.
The selected answer use such "character classes" to build a solution:
$ str='This is a sample 123 text and some 987 numbers'
$ echo "$str" | sed -rn 's/[^[:digit:]]*([[:digit:]]+)[^[:digit:]]+([[:digit:]]+)[^[:digit:]]*/\1 \2/p'
That solution only works for (exactly) two runs of digits.
Of course, as the answer is being executed inside the shell, we can define a couple of variables to make such answer shorter:
$ str='This is a sample 123 text and some 987 numbers'
$ d=[[:digit:]] D=[^[:digit:]]
$ echo "$str" | sed -rn "s/$D*($d+)$D+($d+)$D*/\1 \2/p"
But, as has been already explained, using a s/…/…/gp command is better:
$ str='This is 75577 a sam33ple 123 text and some 987 numbers'
$ d=[[:digit:]] D=[^[:digit:]]
$ echo "$str" | sed -rn "s/$D*($d+)$D*/\1 /gp"
75577 33 123 987
That will cover both repeated runs of digits and writing a short(er) command.
Give up and use Perl
Since sed does not cut it, let's just throw the towel and use Perl, at least it is LSB while grep GNU extensions are not :-)
Print the entire matching part, no matching groups or lookbehind needed:
cat <<EOS | perl -lane 'print m/\d+/g'
a1 b2
a34 b56
EOS
Output:
12
3456
Single match per line, often structured data fields:
cat <<EOS | perl -lape 's/.*?a(\d+).*/$1/g'
a1 b2
a34 b56
EOS
Output:
1
34
With lookbehind:
cat <<EOS | perl -lane 'print m/(?<=a)(\d+)/'
a1 b2
a34 b56
EOS
Multiple fields:
cat <<EOS | perl -lape 's/.*?a(\d+).*?b(\d+).*/$1 $2/g'
a1 c0 b2 c0
a34 c0 b56 c0
EOS
Output:
1 2
34 56
Multiple matches per line, often unstructured data:
cat <<EOS | perl -lape 's/.*?a(\d+)|.*/$1 /g'
a1 b2
a34 b56 a78 b90
EOS
Output:
1
34 78
With lookbehind:
cat EOS<< | perl -lane 'print m/(?<=a)(\d+)/g'
a1 b2
a34 b56 a78 b90
EOS
Output:
1
3478
I believe the pattern given in the question was by way of example only, and the goal was to match any pattern.
If you have a sed with the GNU extension allowing insertion of a newline in the pattern space, one suggestion is:
> set string = "This is a sample 123 text and some 987 numbers"
>
> set pattern = "[0-9][0-9]*"
> echo $string | sed "s/$pattern/\n&\n/g" | sed -n "/$pattern/p"
123
987
> set pattern = "[a-z][a-z]*"
> echo $string | sed "s/$pattern/\n&\n/g" | sed -n "/$pattern/p"
his
is
a
sample
text
and
some
numbers
These examples are with tcsh (yes, I know its the wrong shell) with CYGWIN. (Edit: For bash, remove set, and the spaces around =.)
Try
sed -n -e "/[0-9]/s/^[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*$/\1 \2 \3 \4 \5 \6 \7 \8 \9/p"
I got this under cygwin:
$ (echo "asdf"; \
echo "1234"; \
echo "asdf1234adsf1234asdf"; \
echo "1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m0m1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9") | \
sed -n -e "/[0-9]/s/^[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*$/\1 \2 \3 \4 \5 \6 \7 \8 \9/p"
1234
1234 1234
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
$
You need include whole line to print group, which you're doing at the second command but you don't need to group the first wildcard. This will work as well:
echo "/home/me/myfile-99" | sed -r 's/.*myfile-(.*)$/\1/'
It's not what the OP asked for (capturing groups) but you can extract the numbers using:
S='This is a sample 123 text and some 987 numbers'
echo "$S" | sed 's/ /\n/g' | sed -r '/([0-9]+)/ !d'
Gives the following:
123
987
I want to give a simpler example on "output only captured groups with sed"
I have /home/me/myfile-99 and wish to output the serial number of the file: 99
My first try, which didn't work was:
echo "/home/me/myfile-99" | sed -r 's/myfile-(.*)$/\1/'
# output: /home/me/99
To make this work, we need to capture the unwanted portion in capture group as well:
echo "/home/me/myfile-99" | sed -r 's/^(.*)myfile-(.*)$/\2/'
# output: 99
*) Note that sed doesn't have \d
You can use ripgrep, which also seems to be a sed replacement for simple substitutions, like this
rg '(\d+)' -or '$1'
where ripgrep uses -o or --only matching and -r or --replace to output only the first capture group with $1 (quoted to be avoid intepretation as a variable by the shell) two times due to two matches.