grep (print) the lines where the third character is 't'

Asked Apr 22 '16 at 05:01

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below are the file contents

# cat example.db
LNT_PROFILE
TMP_PROFILE
GMT_PROFILE
nyt_profile
LNX_PROFILE
LOF_PROFILE
ASA_PROFILE
ist_profile

I want to grep (print) the lines where the third character is 't', I know we can achieve this by creating a script to get the third character and pass it to the if loop and success condition will print. but i want to do it in the grep using pattern matching.

Thanks

asked Apr 22 '16 at 05:01

Rukmangathan

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`grep '^..t' example.db` – Cyrus Apr 22 '16 at 05:12
awesome it works, I used -i option since we have uppercase letters grep -i '^..t' example.db – Rukmangathan Apr 22 '16 at 05:15
Thank you very much Cyrus – Rukmangathan Apr 22 '16 at 05:16
See: [The Stack Overflow Regular Expressions FAQ](http://stackoverflow.com/a/22944075/3776858) – Cyrus Apr 22 '16 at 05:29
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@Cyrus you can post it as an answer since it is a complete, valid answer. – fedorqui 'SO stop harming' Apr 22 '16 at 06:43

grep (print) the lines where the third character is 't'

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