Jeff Hyman wrote (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:46:54PM -0400):

| bob@vodka.com
| jpr@jane.com
| jeff@needshelp.net
| joey@test.net
| jeff@waylon@bank.com
| ^------^------------ 2 @ signs
|
| I want to locate any email with 2 "at" signs inside file "file_list".
| Keep in mind there is only ONE email per line and there are
| 10's of thousands of email addresses in "file_list".
|
| # grep "*@*@" file_list Displays every line
| # grep "*\@*\@" file_list Displays every line

How about:

egrep '.*@.*@' file_list
or
awk '/.*@.*@/ { print }'file_list

Bob (who would use mawk 'cause it'd be fastest)

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Jeff Hyman typed (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:46:54PM -0400):
|
| Hello all,
|
| bob@vodka.com
| jpr@jane.com
| jeff@needshelp.net
| joey@test.net
| jeff@waylon@bank.com
| ^------^------------ 2 @ signs
|
| I want to locate any email with 2 "at" signs inside file "file_list".
| Keep in mind there is only ONE email per line and there are
| 10's of thousands of email addresses in "file_list".
|
| # grep "*@*@" file_list Displays every line
| # grep "*\@*\@" file_list Displays every line

Really?? Neither of those commands should find any match whatsoever in
that list; have you some other odd filename in your current directory
which the shell is expanding before passing grep its argument?

In a regular expression, '*' is not a wild card. It indicates any
number of matches (including none) of what precedes it. In a regular
expression, "." stands for any single character, and ".*" for any number
of any character. including none.

Add 'two@@any.org' to your list, just for kicks. Then try:

grep "@.*@"

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Bob Stockler typed (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:16:48PM -0400):
| Jeff Hyman wrote (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:46:54PM -0400):
|
| | bob@vodka.com
| | jpr@jane.com
| | jeff@needshelp.net
| | joey@test.net
| | jeff@waylon@bank.com
| | ^------^------------ 2 @ signs
| |
| | I want to locate any email with 2 "at" signs inside file "file_list".
| | Keep in mind there is only ONE email per line and there are
| | 10's of thousands of email addresses in "file_list".
| |
| | # grep "*@*@" file_list Displays every line
| | # grep "*\@*\@" file_list Displays every line
|
| How about:
|
| egrep '.*@.*@' file_list
| or
| awk '/.*@.*@/ { print }'file_list
|
| Bob (who would use mawk 'cause it'd be fastest)


When it comes to commands, JP goes by the shibboleth that
'shorter is better', so he'd scratch one each of ".", "*",
" ", "{", " ", "p", "r", "i", "n", "t", " ", "}" and just type:

mawk '/@.*@/' file_list

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Jean-Pierre Radley wrote (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:05:44PM -0400):

| Bob Stockler typed (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:16:48PM -0400):
| | Jeff Hyman wrote (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:46:54PM -0400):
| |
| | | bob@vodka.com
| | | jpr@jane.com
| | | jeff@needshelp.net
| | | joey@test.net
| | | jeff@waylon@bank.com
| | | ^------^------------ 2 @ signs
| | |
| | | I want to locate any email with 2 "at" signs inside file "file_list".
| | | Keep in mind there is only ONE email per line and there are
| | | 10's of thousands of email addresses in "file_list".
| | |
| | | # grep "*@*@" file_list Displays every line
| | | # grep "*\@*\@" file_list Displays every line
| |
| | How about:
| |
| | egrep '.*@.*@' file_list
| | or
| | awk '/.*@.*@/ { print }'file_list
| |
| | Bob (who would use mawk 'cause it'd be fastest)
|
|
| When it comes to commands, JP goes by the shibboleth that
| 'shorter is better', so he'd scratch one each of ".", "*",
| " ", "{", " ", "p", "r", "i", "n", "t", " ", "}" and just type:
|
| mawk '/@.*@/' file_list

More elegant . . . less informative to those less knowledgeable.

OTOH it does, in fact, inform (or remind) us of the subtleties
of AWK, which by default prints any matched line.

Bob

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Bob Stockler typed (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:22:12PM -0400):
| Jean-Pierre Radley wrote (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:05:44PM -0400):
|
| | Bob Stockler typed (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:16:48PM -0400):
| | | Jeff Hyman wrote (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:46:54PM -0400):
| | |
| | | | bob@vodka.com
| | | | jpr@jane.com
| | | | jeff@needshelp.net
| | | | joey@test.net
| | | | jeff@waylon@bank.com
| | | | ^------^------------ 2 @ signs
| | | |
| | | | I want to locate any email with 2 "at" signs inside file "file_list".
| | | | Keep in mind there is only ONE email per line and there are
| | | | 10's of thousands of email addresses in "file_list".
| | | |
| | | | # grep "*@*@" file_list Displays every line
| | | | # grep "*\@*\@" file_list Displays every line
| | |
| | | How about:
| | |
| | | egrep '.*@.*@' file_list
| | | or
| | | awk '/.*@.*@/ { print }'file_list
| | |
| | | Bob (who would use mawk 'cause it'd be fastest)
| |
| |
| | When it comes to commands, JP goes by the shibboleth that
| | 'shorter is better', so he'd scratch one each of ".", "*",
| | " ", "{", " ", "p", "r", "i", "n", "t", " ", "}" and just type:
| |
| | mawk '/@.*@/' file_list
|
| More elegant . . . less informative to those less knowledgeable.
|
| OTOH it does, in fact, inform (or remind) us of the subtleties
| of AWK, which by default prints any matched line.
|
| Bob
|
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Well guys, here's the results:

egrep '.*@.*@' list # Works, but slow and prints twice
# real 0m1.19s
# user 0m1.16s
# sys 0m0.02

awk '/.*@.*@/ { print }'list # does not work... just hangs
# ps shows its doing something


grep "@.*@" list # Works & fast
# real 0m0.07s
# user 0m0.07s
# sys 0m0.01

mawk '/@.*@/' list # Works & Fastest
# real 0m0.01s
# user 0m0.01s
# sys 0m0.01

You guys (as always) have been a great help and I thank you!

Jeff H

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006, Jeff Hyman wrote:
>Bob Stockler typed (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:22:12PM -0400):
>| Jean-Pierre Radley wrote (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:05:44PM -0400):
>|
....
>| | | | I want to locate any email with 2 "at" signs inside file "file_list".
>| | | | Keep in mind there is only ONE email per line and there are
>| | | | 10's of thousands of email addresses in "file_list".
....
>Well guys, here's the results:
>

I would think these might have problems given the greedy nature
of regular expressions (e.g. .*@ matches the longest string
ending in @).

This might be a better solution:

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import re
pattern = re.compile(r'.*?@.*@') # the '?' is a non-greedy match
fh = open('file_list')
for line in fh.readlines():
if pattern.search(line): print line, # comma suppresses extra newline

> egrep '.*@.*@' list # Works, but slow and prints twice
> # real 0m1.19s
> # user 0m1.16s
> # sys 0m0.02
>
> awk '/.*@.*@/ { print }'list # does not work... just hangs
> # ps shows its doing something
>
>
> grep "@.*@" list # Works & fast
> # real 0m0.07s
> # user 0m0.07s
> # sys 0m0.01
>
> mawk '/@.*@/' list # Works & Fastest
> # real 0m0.01s
> # user 0m0.01s
> # sys 0m0.01
>
>You guys (as always) have been a great help and I thank you!
>
>Jeff H
>

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In article ,
Bill Campbell wrote:
>...
>>| | | | I want to locate any email with 2 "at" signs inside file "file_list".
>>| | | | Keep in mind there is only ONE email per line and there are
>>| | | | 10's of thousands of email addresses in "file_list".
>...
>
>I would think these might have problems given the greedy nature
>of regular expressions (e.g. .*@ matches the longest string
>ending in @).

Greedy expressions will never prevent a match; "greedy" affects only how much
is matched.

Another solution, about as fast as mawk, is to use 'pgrep' (supplied with
gwxlibs).

John
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John DuBois wrote:

> Another solution, about as fast as mawk, is to use 'pgrep' (supplied
> with gwxlibs).

That's actually `pcregrep`. gwxlibs is unwise (at best) to provide the
`pgrep` alias link. On Linux systems:

$ apropos pgrep; apropos pcregrep
pgrep, pkill - look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes
pcregrep - a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions

>Bela<

Jeff Hyman wrote:

> awk '/.*@.*@/ { print }'list # does not work... just hangs

typo: you need a blank before the filename
(awk listens on stdin with the above)