[tlug] grep sort of thing

[bhoward@example.com]

>>>>> "Brett" == Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com> writes:

Brett> There must be a simple way to do this but I can't work it out.

Brett> I want to display strings from a text file(s) based on a reg
Brett> exp, sort of like egrep but only displaying the matched string
Brett> not the whole line from the file.

I would use sed to strip everything to the left and right of the
pattern then feed that to a grep for the pattern.

					 Cheers,
					 Bruce