I’m trying to do some research in a .gz
file so I found out I should use zcat / zgrep
now after a bit of research I can’t figure out how to use a regex with zgrep
I tried to do it like this zgrep '[sS]{10,}' a.gz
but nothing comes out even if there are string of minimum 10 characters in the file.
So how could I use zgrep
to display string of minimum 10 characters ?
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Answer
You should not use S
and s
in a POSIX BRE regex bracket expression as [Ss]
bracket expression matches either ,
S
or s
. Use .
instead of [sS]
to match any char with a POSIX BRE/ERE regex.
Also, in a BRE pattern, {10,}
must be written as {10,}
as otherwise, when unescaped, {10,}
matches a literal {10,}
string.
Use
zgrep '.{10,}' a.gz