marcmann

I'm having a hole in the head morning!

I've got a file containing various words, for example,

APPLE
BANANA
PEAR
MANGO

I'm using this command to print everything that starts with A but it isn't working.

cat file ¦sed '/^A*/p'

The result is that it just prints the whole file. I've tried it without using the * but the same thing happens? What am I missing??


Cheers

Marc

ragnarock2

Think you need a -n after the sed i.e. sed -n '/^A*/p'
the -n supresses output of lines that do not match

Andrewza

Surely grep is the util for this

command | grep '^A.*'

marcmann

Thankyou for your help - thats works a treat!

Marc