Re: [tlug] grep sort of thing

[Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com>]

> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:43, David Blomberg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 23:03, Brett Robson wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > There must be a simple way to do this but I can't work it out.
> > > 
> > > I want to display strings from a text file(s) based on a reg exp, sort
> > > of like egrep but only displaying the matched string not the whole line
> > > from the file.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Brett
> > 
> > cat $file | grep $entry | echo $entry
> > 
> uh oh open mouth insert foot strikes again
> 
> if you are looking for the number of lines the word occurs on:
> 
> cat /dir/file | grep WORD | wc -l
> 
> or are you trying to print the word for each time it appears?
> 

No, the search expression is a regular expression so it may be different
each match, in this case it /will/ be different each time.

I think Bruce's idea is the better than anything I've come up with.

Brett