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

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

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:59:20PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >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.

What version of grep have you got, and which version of Debian are
you using?

ii  grep           2.5.1.ds1-3    GNU grep, egrep and fgrep

If you're using woody's version, then it won't have it, it seems.
There's plenty of other ways of doing it, mind.

-- Thomas Adam
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