Oracle-L: RE: Questiuon about unix

From: McBain, Neil SITI-ITDIEEE <Neil.McBain_at_shell.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 05:39:43 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D1D01.20031002053943@fatcity.com>

Roland,

grep '[^;];;[^;]*' filename

[^;] match any character except for ;
[^;]* match zero or many occurrences of any character except for ;

Cheers,
Neil.

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Sent: 02 October 2003 14:15
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Hallo everybody,

anyone whom can tell me what the command is to search for an empty field in a unix file.

for instance if you want to find the empty spacelines if some lines looklike:

1;100;Name;;
2;200;Test;45;
3;300;Name;;

I would like to find out line nr 1 and 3 here above. Anyone whom could suggest any good?

Maybe this sounds simple but I have tried with /;; and cant find it. If iI use that command then I will get lines with ;;;;;; and i just want lines with two ;;

Thanks in advance

Roland

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