Re: [tlug] grep sort of thing

[Stephen Lee <sl@example.com>]

Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> 
> No, the search expression is a regular expression so it may be different
> each match, in this case it /will/ be different each time.
> 
> I think Bruce's idea is the better than anything I've come up with.

Yes, but you don't need grep for that.  This only matches 1 pattern each
line though.

    sed -n 's/^.*\(regexp\).*$/\1/p' file

Stephen