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jzhardy

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:20 am
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I’m trying to apply some checks against a PDS member in OMVS using regex pattern matching, such as:

cat "//'<some pds member>'" | egrep -n '^abc'

problem is that the tokens ^ and $ seem to be ignored ..

any help appreciated
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Joerg.Findeisen

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:30 am
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The egrep utility is fully supported for compatibility with older UNIX
systems. However, use grep -E instead because it may provide greater
functionality and is considered the standard for portable UNIX applications
as defined by POSIX.2 IEEE standard 1003.2-1992.
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jzhardy

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 3:02 am
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same issue - it makes no difference.

I've also tried copying the file into my user directory and using:

cat <file> | grep -E '^abc'
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 3:29 am
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i think it must be a code page issue- i'll investigate further
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 5:42 am
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Root cause is that z/OS UNIX files use IBM-1047, MVS use IBM-037 as default.

this formulation works :

cat <file> | grep -E '¬abc'
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:46 am
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Your terminal emulation should be able to switch between different CPs. Otherwise I recommend accessing OMVS via a telnet client like PuTTY (or KiTTY).
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:24 am
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what I still can't figure out is why the following in OMVS:

echo 'abcd\nefgh' | grep -E 'ab.*\nef'

returns empty
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:19 am
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You try to grep a Multiline. Better use awk or sed in such cases.

Code:
echo 'abcd\nefgh' | sed -n '/ab.*/,/ef/p;'

Output:
Code:
+ echo abcd\nefgh
+ sed -n /ab.*/,/ef/p;
abcd
efgh
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:25 am
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excellent! thanks
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:46 am
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A bit care is needed as the expression means /Start expression/ and /End expression/. Everything in between should be printed IIRC.
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