It's funny, i spend most days at work reminding people how sucky perl
is, but this would be a perfect time for perl ...

generate_text | perl -nle 'm/regex/; print $1; print $2'


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM, David Hilton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is it possible to use grep to print out groupings rather than the text I'm
>> getting?
>> If not, I'm supposing that sed or awk is the right tool for the job?
>> AtomicParsley 02\ Promise.m4a -T | grep 'Atom mdat @\(.*\)of size: \(.*\),
>> ends @ \(.*\)'
>> Atom mdat @ 589869 of size: 5716586, ends @ 6306455
>
> Yeah, I'd just pass the result through awk: "awk '{print $4, $7, $10}'"
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