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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Another text filtering question Post 302169353 by DethLark on Thursday 21st of February 2008 02:49:36 AM
Old 02-21-2008
Question Another text filtering question

I want to remove everything from a file but the word following the search word.

Example:

crap crap crap crap SearchWord WordToKeep crap crap crap

How would I do this with say awk or grep?

Thank you!
 

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