grep search with regex

Question

how to find a line that contains exactly 3 "w", 5 "t" and no "v" with grep?

Input:
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aabbccddd4444
wccwwtttjjttuu
zzxxxwwwmmmnnnn

Expected output:
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wccwwtttjjttuu

Because in "wccwwtttjjttuu" we have 3 "w", 5 "t" and no "v"

Thanks!

Answer 1

$ cat ip.txt 
aabbccddd4444
wccwwtttjjttuu
wvccwwtttjjttuu
zzxxxwwwmmmnnnn
ccwwtttjjttuu

with grep, using extended regex and -x option match only whole line

$ grep -xE '([^w]*w){3}[^w]*' ip.txt | grep -xE '([^t]*t){5}[^t]*' | grep -v 'v'
wccwwtttjjttuu

with awk, not sure which versions support {3} regex construct. I tested on GNU awk 4.1.3

$ awk '/^([^w]*w){3}[^w]*$/ && /^([^t]*t){5}[^t]*$/ && !/v/' ip.txt 
wccwwtttjjttuu

with perl

$ perl -ne '(@w)=/w/g; (@t)=/t/g; (@v)=/v/g; print if $#w==2 && $#t==4 && $#v==-1' ip.txt 
wccwwtttjjttuu

• @w, @t, @v arrays contains all w, t, v characters respectively
• $#w gives index of last element in @w, so it's value is number of elements minus one