How can i grep for a pattern with wildcard using grep?
I want to identify all the lines that start with SAM and end in .PIPE
IN.TXT
SAM_HEADER.PIPE
SAM_DETAIL.PIPE
SAM_INVOICE.PIPE
Can i do something like
grep SAM*.PIPE IN.TXT
it didnt really work
Should be '.*' and if you didn't quote it on the command line you should.
grep "SAM.*PIPE" IN.TXT
You also might want to grep for this:
"^SAM.*PIPE$"
That pattern anchors 'SAM' at the beginning of the line, and 'PIPE' at the end of the line.
That did the trick..Thanks