Why is grep not finding integer*2? - linux

For example
grep -n 'integer*2' *.f
Shows nothing.But
grep -n '*2' *.f
main.f:57: integer*2 itime(nxmax)
main.f:605: dxy=((xsource(is)-xobs)**2+(ysource(is)-yobs)**2)**.5
main.f:622: chisum=chisum+diff2/uobs**2
model.f:15: integer*2 veli(nxmax)
model.f:52: size2=size**2
time.f:151: integer*2 itime(nxmax)
I really do not understand this.

* is an operator, meaning "match the previous term 0 or more times". So integer*2 matches
intege2
integer2
integerr2
integerrr2
:
none of which appear in your program. * at the beginning of an RE is meaningless (there's no previous term), so is either ignored or treated as match for a *. Escape the * to have it match an actual star:
'integer\*2'

Your grep is using a regex. (Star is being interpreted differently than you might believe). Try
grep -F -n 'integer*2' *.f

Because grep is interpreting the search argument as a regular expression, in which * is meant as "zero or more of the preceding". So 'integer*2 would match intege2 as well as integerrrrr2 since * applies to the preceding r but will not match the literal integer*2.
Escape it with a backslash to interpret it as a literal * and you should get the desired matches:
grep -n 'integer\*2' *.f

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Linux sed regular expression

I have a string:
2021-05-27 10:40:50.678117 PID529270:TID 47545543550720:SID 1673488:TXID 786092740:QID 140: INFO:MEMCONTEXT:MemContext state: mem[cur/hi/max] = 9135 / 96586 / 96576 MB, VM[cur/hi/max] = 9161 / 21841178 / 100663296 MB
I want to get the number 9135 that first occurrence between '=' and '/', right now, my command as below, it works, but I don't think it's perfect:
sed -r 's/.* = ([0-9]+) .* = .*/\1 /'
Need a more neat one, please help advise.
You can use
sed -En 's~.*= ([0-9]+) /.*=.*~\1~p'
See the online demo.
An awk solution:
awk -F= '{gsub(/\/.*|[^0-9]/,"",$2);print $2}'
See this demo.
Details:
-En - E (or r as in your example) enables the POSIX ERE syntax and n suppresses the default line output
.*= ([0-9]+) /.*=.* - matches any text, = + space, captures one or more digits into Grou 1, then matches a space, /, then any text, = and again any text
\1 - replaces with Group 1 value
p - prints the result of the substitution.
Here, ~ are used as regex delimiters in order not to escape / in the pattern.
awk:
-F= - sets the input field separator to =
gsub(/\/.*|[^0-9]/,"",$2) - removes any non-digit or / and the rest of the string
print $2 - prints the modified Field 2 value.
You could also get the first match with grep using -P for Perl-compatible regular expressions.
grep -oP "^.*? = \K\d+(?= /)"
^ Start of string
.*? Match as least as possible chars
= Match space = and space
\K\d+ Forget what is matched so far
(?= /) Assert a space and / to the right
Output
9135
See a bash demo
Since you want the material between the first = and the first /, ignoring the spaces, you could use:
sed -E -e 's%^[^=]*= ([^/]*) /.*$%\1%'
This uses Extended Regular Expressions (ERE) (-E; -r also works with GNU sed), and searches from the start of the line for a sequence of 'not =' characters, the = character, a space, anything that's not a slash (which is remembered), another space, a slash, and anything that follows, replacing it all with what was remembered. The ^ and $ anchors aren't crucial; it will work the same without them. The % symbols are used instead of / because the searched-for pattern includes a /. If your sure there'll never be any spaces other than the first and last ones between the = and /, you can use [^ /]* in place of [^/]* and there should be some small (probably immeasurable) performance benefit.

Cutting certain string of variable

I'd like to cut off some special strings of a variable.
The variable contains the following, including a lot of blank space before <div... and a class attribute:
<div data-href="/www.somewebspace.com" class="class1 class2">
I would like to extract the contents of the data-href attribute i.e have this output /www.somewebspace.com
I tried out the following code, the output starts with the contents of the data-href attribute and the class attribute.
echo $Test | grep -oP '(?<=<div data-href=").*(?=")'
How can I get rid of the class attribute?
Kind regards and grateful for every reply,
X3nion
P.S. Some other question arouse. I've got this strings I'd like to extract from a text file:
<div class="aditem-addon">
Today, 23:23</div>`
What would be the correct command to extract only the "Today, 23:23" without any spaces and spaces before and after the term?
Maybe I would have to delete the black spaces before?
your regex is correct, you only need to adjust the greediness of the * quantifier:
* is a greedy quantifier : match as much as possible whilst getting a match
*? is a reluctant quantifier : match the minimum characters to get a match
# Correct
Test='<div data-href="/www.somewebspace.com" class="fdgks"></div>'
echo $Test | grep -oP '(?<=<div data-href=").*?(?=")'
#> /www.somewebspace.com
# the desired output
# WRONG
echo $Test | grep -oP '(?<=<div data-href=").*(?=")'
#> /www.somewebspace.com" class="fdgks
# didn't stop until it matched the last quote `"`
echo $Test$Test | grep -oP '(?<=<div data-href=").*(?=")'
#> /www.somewebspace.com" class="fdgks"></div><div data-href="/www.somewebspace.com" class="fdgks
# same as the last one
for a more detailed explanation about the difference between greedy, reluctant and possessive quantifiers (see)
EDIT
echo $Test$Test | grep -Poz '(?<=<div class="aditem-addon">\n ).*?(?=<\/div>)'
#> Today, 23:23
#> Today, 23:23
\n matches a newline an a leading space.
if the string you're looking for contains the newline character \n you'll need to add the z option to grep i.e the call will be grep -ozP
Unless the input is very simple, considering using xmllint or other html parsing tool. For the very simple cases, you can use bash solution:
#! /bin/sh
s=' <div data-href="/www.somewebspace.com" class="class1 class2"> '
s1=${s##*data-href=\"}
s1=${s1%%\"*}
echo "$s1"
Which will print
/www.somewebspace.com

Remove path prefix of space separated paths

Given a list of paths separated by a single space:
/home/me/src/test /home/me/src/vendor/a /home/me/src/vendor/b
I want to remove the prefix /home/me/src/ so that the result is:
test vendor/a vendor/b
For a single path I would do: ${PATH#/home/me/src/} but how do I apply it to this series?
You can use // to replace all occurrences of substring. Replace it with null string to remove them.
$ path="/home/me/src/test /home/me/src/vendor/a /home/me/src/vendor/b"
$ echo ${path//\/home\/me\/src\/}
test vendor/a vendor/b
Reference: ${parameter/pattern/string} in Bash reference manual
Using shell parameter expansion doesn't seem to be the solution for this, since it would remove everything up to / from a given point is useful, as nu11p01n73R's answer reveals.
For clarity, I would use sed with the syntax sed 's#pattern#replacement#g':
$ str="/home/me/src/test /home/me/src/vendor/a /home/me/src/vendor/b"
$ sed 's#/home/me/src/##g' <<< "$str"
test vendor/a vendor/b
Like always a grep solution from my side :
echo 'your string' | grep -Po '^/([^ /]*/)+\K.+'
Please note that the above regex do this for any string like /x/y/z/test ... But if you are interested only in replacing /home/me/src/, try the following :
echo 'your string' | grep -Po '^/home/me/src/\K.+' --color

Two pattern match on same sed command

I have the following sed command:
sed -n '/^out(/{n;p}' ${filename} | sed -n '/format/ s/.*format=//g; s/),$//gp; s/))$//gp'
I tried to do it as one line as in:
sed -n '/^out(/{n;}; /format/ s/.*format=//g; s/),$//gp; s/))$//gp' ${filename}
But that also display the lines I don't want (those that do not match).
What I have is a file with some strings as in:
entry(variable=value)),
format(variable=value)),
entry(variable=value)))
out(variable=value)),
format(variable=value)),
...
I just want the format lines that came right after the out entry. and remove those trailing )) or ),
You can use this sed command:
sed -nr '/^out[(]/ {n ; s/.*[(]([^)]+)[)].*/\1/p}' your_file
Once a out is found, it advanced to the next line (n) and uses the s command with p flag to extract only what is inside parenthesises.
Explanation:
I used [(] instead of \(. Outside brackets a ( usually means grouping, if you want a literal (, you need to escape it as \( or you can put it inside brackets. Most RE special characters dont need escaping when put inside brackets.
([^)]+) means a group (the "(" here are RE metacharacters not literal parenthesis) that consists of one or more (+) characters that are not (^) ) (literal closing parenthesis), the ^ inverts the character class [ ... ]

read[command] in bash

When I read[command] some lines including character '*', it seems that '*' will be looked as a wildcard. whether exsits some solutions leting '*' just be a '*', please!
It depends how you use the variable: if you quote it, filename expansion will not happen. Example:
$ ls
f1 f2 f3
$ read line
*
$ echo "$line"
*
$ echo $line
f1 f2 f3
If you do not want any of the special file name characters to be used as wildcards then enter the following in your script before the read.
set -o noglob
This will prevent the * ? and [] from having special meaning and treat them as normal characters.
The following example demonstrates the point
touch 1 2 3
echo "With wild card expansion"
echo *
echo "Without wild card expansion"
set -o noglob
echo *
And produces the following results
With wild card expansion
1 2 3
Without wild card expansion
*
You can escape it with the escape character: \*. This means the * will be a literal *, not matching one or more characters as the glob pattern.

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