Re: [tlug] pattern matching

[David Oftedal <david@example.com>]

Brett Robson wrote:
>>>>>>>"Susumu" == Susumu ISHIZUKA <sufiyanjp@example.com> writes:
>>
>>    Susumu> but my little grep(1) do it for me with,
>>
>>    Susumu>  $ grep -o PATTERN file
> 
> 
> 
> That is exactly what I wanted! I wonder why it's take so long to be
> implemented, I can't be the only person that wanted it. Although
> preaching to the converted, this is a good example of the utility of
> Unix (like) OS. Don't have the command you want? Write it in perl or sed
> et al.

Yeah, perl can do even more than sed... Too bad you actually have to 
know Perl to use it... I have a script that converts characters in the 
form ux0000 to &#0000; HTML entities... I think someone on this list or 
on IRC had to write it for me. ;)

-David