Ed Lawson wrote: > My son who is working at an unamed, but major health care institution in > boston has a desparate > need to extract all instances of the following four text strings in a 6 > meg file: > > po= > to= > delay= > dsn=4
try grep -E '(po|to|delay)=|dsn=4' filename -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss