Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?

[Kent West]

Thomas Adam wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:59:20PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home.local/snert> grep -o alias .bashrc
grep: invalid option -- o
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
     

and "man grep" doesn't seem to have an "-o" option.
   

What version of grep have you got, and which version of Debian are
you using?
ii  grep           2.5.1.ds1-3    GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
If you're using woody's version, then it won't have it, it seems.
There's plenty of other ways of doing it, mind.
 

Version: 2.4.2-3
Yep; woody. I'd _love_ to upgrade to Testing/Sid, but X in Testing/Sid 
breaks a SunBlade 2000 with ATI video card horribly (requiring a power 
off/on). (I hope that gets fixed by the time Sarge is released.)

--
Kent

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