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06-18-2009

Rhije

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Grep regex matches, groups

Hello,

I am searching all over the place for this, just not finding anything solid

I want to do be able to access the groups that are matched with grep (either with extended regex, or perl compatible regex). For instance:

Code:

echo "abcd" | egrep "a(b(c(d)))"

Of course this returns "abcd", but I would like to have access to each regex group that matched as well. In just bash, I believe there is a SUBMATCH array, but it seems to not be set in this case.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

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