Extract string found in line

[Lee Hinde]

I am parsing apache log files. This is the grep pattern I'm using:

GET /public/search/\?q=(\w|\+|\.|-)+

works fine. But I want to extract just the text that matches that string
and lose all the rest of the line.

How would I do that?

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Re: Extract string found in line

[Christopher Stone]

On May 11, 2014, at 14:36, Lee Hinde  wrote:
> I am parsing apache log files. This is the grep pattern I'm using:
> 
> GET /public/search/\?q=(\w|\+|\.|-)+
__

Hey Lee,

When making these kinds of requests it's always better if you provide an actual 
sample of the data you're working with.

Just looking at it I could say:

Find:

.*(GET /public/search/\?q=(\w|\+|\.|-)+).*

Replace:

\1

But I'd much rather see the data and actually test my solution.

For that matter this seems like a job for a Perl filter.

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Chris

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