Taylor Blau <[email protected]> writes: > In fact, I think that we can go even further: since we don't need to > catch the beginning '^.*' (without -o), we can instead: > > extract_haves () { > depacketize - | grep '\.have' | sed -e 's/\\0.*$//g' > }
Do not pipe grep into sed, unless you have an overly elaborate set
of patterns to filter with, e.g. something along the lines of...
sed -ne '/\.have/s/...//p'

