Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?

[Thomas Adam <thomas@edulinux.homeunix.org>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:27:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> solution. I'm hoping one of you whiz-guys can provide me an answer in 
> about ten seconds.

Is this want you want (as an example):

[n6tadam@station ~]$ echo this is a word in a line | grep -o word           
word

So for your script:

grep -o "word" ./file

If I understand you correctly.

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