Re: [tlug] pattern matching

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

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

    Brett> I want to grep for a pattern but I don't want to see the
    Brett> whole line, just the bit that matches. Sometimes I pipe to
    Brett> cut but in this case I don't know where the pattern will
    Brett> be. Surely this is straight forward?

grep -e 'PATTERN' | sed -e 's/.*\(PATTERN\).*/\1/'
perl -ane 'print "$&\n" if /PATTERN/'

There must be a way of doing this using awk, but I can't remember it.


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