Need Grep help

[Andrew Deters]

I need to grep for the following:

PM||12345678912345||ADT^Z46

where 12345678912345 is the date and time the message was sent.  Can anybody help me out?

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

Andrew Deters wrote:

I need to grep for the following:

PM||12345678912345||ADT^Z46

where 12345678912345 is the date and time the message was sent.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Andrew Deters]

that would appear to match on all lines for some reason.

i used the command

egrep -E ‘PM||[0-9]+||ADT^Z46’

also tried

egrep ‘PM||[0-9]+||ADT^Z46’

both times all rows are returned.

but maybe the message files are seen as all one line

[David Barr]

Code:

grep ‘PM||12345678912345||ADT^Z46’

The pipes are special characters in egrep, but you stick with grep, you only have to worry about the caret.

[Max Drown (Infor)]

I’m assuming that “12345678912345” needs to be a pattern? Or is that the actual string you want to search for?

Can you paste a few sample lines here?

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Andrew Deters]

They are message files from smat. but they look like

MSH|^~&|NE|NE|PM|20091109235806||ADT^Z46……..more message out this way.

I think i have bigger problems than this because those files aren’t line delineated.  They are all one line.

any ideas on how to pull just the messages that have the search string in them and not the entire file?

[Max Drown (Infor)]

Take a look at this link: http://clovertech.infor.com/viewtopic.php?t=3097&highlight=useful+hl7+scripts

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Andrew Deters]

That’s what it was.  I used msgExtract.pl to convert the file then the egrep command worked like a charm.

thanks

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