Re: [tlug] grep sort of thing

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Or with Perl....

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $re = shift;
while (<>) {
        print $1, "\n" if /($re)/;
}

The $1 variable holds whatever the regular expression matched.

Jake


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