OT regex help

[Matthew Boeckman]

I know this is a little OT, but thought someone might have a quick answer. I'm trying to match the first and or last letter in a single word textfile. So, assume a file called test, with the contents: abcdef .
What I'm after is the return af .

I thought that

grep -G \<\> test

would do it, but no! Likewise awk variants didn't seem to do it either. Am I missing anything obvious?

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