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

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Thomas Adam wrote:

> 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.
>  
Ah, that looks great. Unfortunately:

> snert[@macs51]:/home.local/snert> grep -o alias .bashrc
> grep: invalid option -- o
> Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
> Try `grep --help' for more information.

and "man grep" doesn't seem to have an "-o" option.

--
Kent