Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-03-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: ... all manner of external tools, sed, awk, perl, cut, ad nauseum. Just use bash. Well, this is on MS-Windows. bash is as external as sed, awk, etc., are. :) That said, more techniques are always good to offer.

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-03-15 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 11:20 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: So I figured it'd be a better job for grep, =however It appears that it's printing the entire matching line and I =only want the match on the pattern to display. = grep should have a -o option to only output the match -- Lloyd Kvam

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-03-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: grep should have a -o option to only output the match That was brought up -- and useful it is -- but it has problems when you only want to see the match but your target pattern has to include delimiters. For those so