grep for commas?

[wrathkeg]

Hi all,

I have a load of comma-separated tables. Almost all lines have three entries, separated by commas e.g.

one,two,three

Some lines have only two entries, and therefore one comma e.g.

one,two

I want to get rid of the lines with two entries/one comma. It seems to me that a decent way to do this would be to use grep to find all the lines containing two commas..... But I can't figure out how to do it! Any pointers (or even alternate solutions I could put in a shell script) would be welcome.

Thanks in advance,

wrathkeg

[Simian Man]

Pretty simple:

[simian@splinter ~]$ cat temp 
one,two,three
a,b
x,y,z
qwe,ter,ert
hi,there
[simian@splinter ~]$ cat temp | grep ".*,.*,.*"
one,two,three
x,y,z
qwe,ter,ert
[simian@splinter ~]$

[wrathkeg]

excellent! thanks. I had been putting "*" as the wildcard instead of ".*".
best,
wrathkeg