[ILUG] [OT puzzle] Grep regex please?

[Proinnsias Breathnach]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:16:01PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:22 +0100, Proinnsias Breathnach wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:58:49AM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > > So I'm looking for the question marks in 
> > > 
> > > grep -o --binary-files=text -E '?????'  index.dat |less
> > > 
> > > and it is possible that the user (administrator here) could vary.
> > > -- 
> > 
> > strings index.dat | grep http | less ?
> > 
> > Maybe, just maybe ?
> 
> I missapplied that first time. Ignore any criticism.
> 
> it caught the http all right. No file:// ftp:// or whatever else. That
> might be enough though.

easy to fix: 
	strings index.dat | grep -e '[http|ftp|file]' | less

> So we can pencil your name in and thank you. It does also catch a whole
> lot of gibberish on the end of some urls but it's text gibberish.

Probably easily solved by adding a :
	| sed -e 's/ .*$//' 
before the | less 

> I wonder does Tom's have strings?

I'd be suprised if it didn't !

it could be approximated using sed/awk/grep if you really needed to
thoguh.

P