[CentOS] Strange behavior from grep
Jacques B.
jjrboucher at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 13:45:25 UTC 2008
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Mário Gamito <gamito at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your answer.
>
> After a little more research, I found out that the line containing the
> word 'gamito' is huge and yet it scrolls so fast in the screen that I
> can barely see it.
>
> I tried redirecting the output of the grep to a file and that huge
> line went in to it.
>
> So, I've tried a double grep:
>
> $ grep 'gamito' file | grep 'gamito'
>
> but without success.
>
> Well, my question now is, how do I get the word 'gamito' alone from the file ?
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Mário Gamito
I'm not a sed user but I believe that would do it for you. Someone
else can no doubt fill the blanks. I believe you could also do it
with awk as it also accepts a regular express in its syntax.
Jacques B.
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