On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:35:12 -0600 Alan Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 15:59, Charles Curley > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> '\b((s?he)|it)\b' > > > > Let's see it from the command line so we know which .?grep you used. > > $ echo 'there sit she' | egrep --color '\b((s?he)|it)\b' > there sit she > > $ echo 'there sit she' | sed -r 's/\b((s?he)|it)\b/Matched: "\1"/;' > there sit Matched: "she" > > $ echo 'there sit she' | perl -ne '/\b((s?he)|it)\b/ && print "$1\n"' > she Much better; danke. For the first one, try: charles@yendi:~$ echo 'there sit she' | egrep -o --color '\b((s?he)|it)\b' she charles@yendi:~$ echo 'there sit' | egrep -o --color '\b((s?he)|it)\b' charles@yendi:~$ echo 'there sit it' | egrep -o --color '\b((s?he)|it)\b' it charles@yendi:~$ Which I think is what you wanted. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
