IF what you want is a file containing only the lines that match that pattern, use "Process Lines Containing" from the Text menu.
On 1/21/07 5:48 PM, "Tom Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am enjoying playing grep finds in BBedit > > i can envisage using it to re-organise a document I am working on to > prepare it for insertion into a Filemaker DB > > Right now I'd like to learn a little thing which I don't yet understand > > I can write simple find and replace patterns > > I'm currently looking at a most simple one to pick out special > numbers from a documents > > search pattern: BS [\d]+ > > I've run this in BBedit and finds the strings that I want it to > > Now I want to produce a document with only the results of the > implemented search > > In Terminal that would seem to be egrep -o "searchpattern" File > > newFile > > But it doesn't work > > why not? > > Marmot -- Allen Watson . Writer/Webmaster [ p. 503 .281 .0250 m. 503 .916 .9411 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage.mac.com/allen_a_watson/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
