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Hi, suppose I have the following data:


albert music=top40 age=20
bob music=punk rock age=25
candy music=r n b age=22
dave music=mozart or bach only age=30


I want to extract and...

Don, thanks for your assistance...simple and elegant. It works great!

Thanks for all your comments. The use of '^' and '$' work only if the keyword is the only word in the sentence. What if the keywords appear in the middle of a sentence? For example,


monday...

Hi, I have the following data in a file
bob
bobby
sam
sammy
ed
eddie

I need to grep these exact words: "bob", "sam", "ed". I don't want to see "bobby", "sammy", "eddie".

egrep...