On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Mário Gamito <gamito at gmail.com> wrote: > Well, my question now is, how do I get the word 'gamito' alone from the > file ? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > What are you really trying to do? grep 'gamito' file and grep -c 'gamito' file will tell you if it is present. grep -n 'gamito' file will tell you which line(s) it is on. grep -o 'gamito' file only gives you the word 'gamito' is in or not. grep -C3 'gamito' file should give 3 context lines There are also sed and awk commands which might be useful. But the real answer depends on what you will do with the info. -Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080328/d9030aae/attachment-0005.html>