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Hi,

I have a weird requirement using egrep.
I'm using egrep -o 'x.*|y.*' to a file.
Since egrep returns the value if either of the 1 satisfies.
But in my file both the conditions are satisfied (x and y) and hence I want to return twice using this command.
Is there any way around?
I don't want to use looping and all.
I would prefer single egrep solution.

Thanks

give sample file contents

Lets say content of file has only 1 line

ABCDE (x,y,z,abc)

if you use egrep -o x.* content will be "x,y,z,abc)"
if you use egrep -o y.* content will be "y,z,abc)"
But if you use egrep -o 'x.*|y.*' I'm getting "x,y,z,abc)"
I want both.
This has impacted my output

Is there any option like egrep -o ???
Just check the man pages

You are working on which OS

infile

Code:

ABCDE (x,y,z,abc)

Code:

egrep y.* infile

If you give above code it will give you entire line in the output

output

Code:

ABCDE (x,y,z,abc)

Cheers
Harish

I'm working on Linux and yes egrep -o option works

I believe it's impossible with grep. As far as I know grep prints a result as quick as possible and goes to the next line.
But it's easy with sed (or, for example, perl).

give me the sed command pls.
This will also help