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Asked: 2021-12-05T00:46:09+00:00 In:

Grep a String At Specific Position

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Hi,

I have a text file which contains thousands of record and each record has a length of 256 characters.

I need to grep for the lines containing the text 401055, starting at column 9.

How do I achieve this with grep or egrep command? I don’t want a shell script or awk to achieve this.

Thanks,
Balaji.

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      Do you know what grep stands for – Global Regular Expression Print. It means display all the text in the file that matches this pattern. If you don’t allow the shell or a Unix tool to limit the search, then you are out of luck and you have to live with the global return.

      Of course, I could be wrong.

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