Regex search with grep: How to get only search pattern as result and not whole line?

[ensign]

Hello,

may I ask if it is possible to get grep.exe to return only result of seach pattern and not any (complete) lines which contain the seacht pattern?

(I'm using Gnu Grep V2.5.4 for Windows 7)

Thanks for any hint.

[aGerman]

Of course. And if this question is related to your first thread then it might work like that:

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grep -P "\bA_[A-Za-z\d]+_f[ ]*\([ ]*[-]*[\d.]+[ ]*\)" -o "test.txt"

Steffen

[ShadowThief]

I seem to recall grep having a -o flag that only returned the matching part.

EDIT: Yep, -o. https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manua ... ut-Control