Bash / Grep Question

[Darkstar757]

Say you have a line that has the word "bug: in it.


I want to grep and retrieve only the line that contain the word "bug" twice in one line.


For example " The dog ate many bugs under the bud tree". I want the grep search to only locate these lines.


Thanks,
Darkstar

 

[Crusty]

You need a regular expression to do what you want, unfortunately I'm rusty on mine so I can't give you one.

 

[degibson]

grep "bug.*bug" $FILE

It will find lines that contain two or more instances of 'bug'.

 

[Darkstar757]

thanks m8 I owe you one.