Re: It's 3am and I have no caffeine

[Chuck Payne <cepayne@magidesign.com>]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:46:28AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > I am sorry to ask such a newbie question, and my eyes are crossed, no 
> > caffeine, and I have try everything on the man pages and my serveral books 
> > and I am not getting the answer.
> >
> > Ok. Here are my two question, and two question they yet be.
> >
> > I need to know the flag for grep to get the exact phrase, for payne.
> >
> > when I do grep for payne...I like this...
> >
> > cpayne
> > cepayne
> > payne
> > apayne
> >
> > I know it got to be simple.
> >
> > Also, why can I do this zgrep -c, how can I get a count with zgrep.
> >
> > Again sorry I know these are simple newbie questions, but it late and my 
> > brain is aching for CAFFEINE....
> >
> > Payne
>
> Chuck, there are different options depending what you want.
>
> If you want to grep:
> A line that starts with 'payne', this will do it:
> egrep "^payne" greptest 
>
> If you want to grep a line 'payne' this will do it:
> egrep "^payne$"
>
> if you want a sentence that contains the word 'payne' then you need
> something different.
>
> cheers,
> Kev
Kevin,

Thanks, I got it. I need to use -w, finds only matches for whole line. 
So thanks on that.

Now I am trying to get count to work with zgrep. When I do zgrep -c, I 
get a what I am looking for and not a count. Anyway try to play with it 
to figure before I crash.

Again thanks for the reply.

Payne