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URGENT: Question about grep

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From: Greta <romano.greta <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: URGENT: Question about grep
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:53:45 +0100

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Dear grep developer,

I am Greta Romano and I need your help as soon as possibile.

I want to use grep command to search a string of 6 characters in every 
line of a file (biological file with DNA nucleotide).

The problem is that I need to search these 6 characters in the first 30 
characters of each line. I report you an example:

String to search: GTGTCA

File:

>HWI-ST740:1:C2GCJACXX:1:1101:1279:1825 1:N:0:
_/NGACGCTCTGACCTTGGGGCTGGTCGGGG/__A_TGCTGAGGAGACGGTGACCAGGGTTCCCTGGCCCCACANNNCCAAGCTTCCNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
>HWI-ST740:1:C2GCJACXX:1:1101:1349:1847 1:N:0:
_/NTTAGATGAGGGAAACATCTGCATCAAGTT/__G_TTTATCTGTGACAACAAGTGTTGTTCCACTGCCAAAGAGTTTCTTATAATAAAACAATCGGGGTGGCACNNNNN

I want that the research is done only in the underline characters.  So 
what I have to add in grep command to put the limit of 30 characters?

Thank you very much

Best regards

Dr. Greta Romano

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