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

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 41265EB6.2050202@acu.edu>,
Kent West  <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>A programmer would know this . . , but not me  ;-)
>
>I'm using a script to build a file by concatenating portions of two 
>other files. Then end result needs to be checked to make sure a certain 
>word shows up in a line.
>
>I know that "grep programm <this email message>" would return the line:
>
> A programmer would know this . . , but not me  ;-)
>
>but what I want returned is just the word "programmer".

sed -ne 's/^.*\(word_here\).*$/\1/p' < file

BTW, why not simply

	if grep -q word file
	then
		# word was present in file
		bla
		bla
	fi

Or "if ! grep -q word file" if you want to do something if word
wasn't present in file.

Mike.
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