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.