Re: [tlug] grep sort of thing

[David Blomberg <dblomber@example.com>]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:43, David Blomberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 23:03, Brett Robson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > There must be a simple way to do this but I can't work it out.
> > 
> > I want to display strings from a text file(s) based on a reg exp, sort
> > of like egrep but only displaying the matched string not the whole line
> > from the file.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Brett
> 
> cat $file | grep $entry | echo $entry
> 
uh oh open mouth insert foot strikes again

if you are looking for the number of lines the word occurs on:

cat /dir/file | grep WORD | wc -l

or are you trying to print the word for each time it appears?