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.