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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from
a file that have exactly three characters.

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / suvarna

grep -w "[a-z][a-z][a-z]" file_name

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / vawani

grep -x ^...$ <File Name>

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / mahfooz

grep [a-z][a-z][a-z] filename

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / saravan

Sorry use the below commands to get the exact word contains
3 char in the file.

grep -w "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]" <filename>

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / jyoti pruthi

grep -n "..." <filename>

It will give u the lines that have only 3 characters with
line numbers. Here, "..." replace any 3 characters (single
dot represent single character).

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / niranjan

1)grep ??? filename

2)grep ^...$ filename

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / manideep

grep "..." <filename>

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / udhaya

grep ^???$ <filename>

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / rahul

grep -nw <charvalue> <filename>

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Write a grep (or grep) command that selects the lines from a file that have exactly three characte..

Answer / chakri

grep -a filename

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