I don't know how I made it this long in my technical career without knowing about the -o
option to grep
, which prints only the part of the line that matches the regular expression, not the entire line. I have spent way too much time post-processing the results with sed
, awk
, etc. (and learned a lot in the process), but hopefully this will save me (and you) some time in the future.
Source: grep
(1) man page