In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A programmer would know this . . , but not me ;-)
>
>I'm using a script to build a file by concatenating portions of two
>other files. Then end result needs to be checked to make sure a certain
>word shows up in a line.
>
>I know that "grep programm <this email message>" would return the line:
>
> A programmer would know this . . , but not me ;-)
>
>but what I want returned is just the word "programmer".
sed -ne 's/^.*\(word_here\).*$/\1/p' < file
BTW, why not simply
if grep -q word file
then
# word was present in file
bla
bla
fi
Or "if ! grep -q word file" if you want to do something if word
wasn't present in file.
Mike.
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