[CentOS] Strange behavior from grep

Fri Mar 28 13:45:25 UTC 2008
Jacques B. <jjrboucher at gmail.com>

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.