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

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Stefan O'Rear wrote:

> 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
>
>
>  
IIUC, this is breaking each word of the file into its own line, which 
then gets grepped. Seems to work, but it seems a bit inelegant. However, 
if no one suggests anything better, I'll use it.

Thanks!

--
Kent