Re: [tlug] pattern matching

[Tod McQuillin <devin@example.com>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brett Robson wrote:

> I know this is a simple question, but I've often needed to do it and
> never come up with a simple way.
>
> I want to grep for a pattern but I don't want to see the whole line,
> just the bit that matches. Sometimes I pipe to cut but in this case I
> don't know where the pattern will be. Surely this is straight forward?

Not with grep, but sed can do it:

sed -ne 's/.*\(tl.*ug\).*/\1/p' file

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Tod McQuillin