grep wild card?

[gawker]

In a file, I have strings such as:

abc_1234_xyx
abc_34kk_xyx
abc_q3_xyx

I am trying to find a wild card pattern I can use so that a single grep can find strings with abc at the start and xyx at the end. The string length may vary.

I was hoping there was something like grep "abc*xyz" where "*" tell grep to match anything in the middle.

Thank you!

Gawker

 

[PHV]

grep '^abc.*xyx$'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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