I am struggling with an assignment.
This is the assignment: Collect specific entries from file or pipe by regular expression or simple text search - from download.log, get all zip file names and their size. Put the output into a new file.
I tried to tackle this problem with grep.
This is what I got so far:
grep -E -w '......*|.zip' download.log
Executing this command just gives me the entire download.log
Does anyone have ideas how to tackle this problem? Thanks in advance
This command should work for you:
grep -E '\S*.zip' download.log
\S means that we search for non-whitespace character. Meaning alphanumeric characters, hyphen, dot or underline followed by .zip
If you want grep to only output the matches simply use the -o option additionally.