On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Alan Johnson <a...@datdec.com> wrote: >> -o, --only-matching >> Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching >> line, with each such part on a separate output line. > > Oh. Hey, that's neat; I didn't know about that one. So Kenta could > -- possibly -- do this: > > grep -o -E [[:xdigit:]]+ > > However, that will generate false positive matches on anything that > happens to match a hex digit and isn't within Kenta's field delimiters > (colon and backslash). May or may not be an issue, depending on what > "foo" and "bar" really are. And you can't use any kind of delimiter > matching without also including the delimiters in the output with > grep, can you?
Actually I need to get the info regardless of delimiters so matching any hex digits of a certain length works for me. I'd sent an e-mail before but I used the wrong address so maybe it didn't go through, for som reason the gnu-port of grep for win32 has no -o option. :( -Kenta _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
