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



On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:27:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> but what I want returned is just the word "programmer". I figure it's 
> some switch to grep, or perhaps piping the results to sed or awk, but 
> I'm unfamiliar with these tools, and an hour of trying to grok the man 
> pages and web tutorials for these apps hasn't gotten me any closer to a 
> solution. I'm hoping one of you whiz-guys can provide me an answer in 
> about ten seconds.

Is this helpful:

stefan:~$ tr -cs '[a-zA-Z0-9-]' '\012' < /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat | grep ault-x-dis
default-x-display-manager
default-x-display-manager



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