Exact expression matches (can't seem to solve this)
I've seen dozens of similar threads but none seem to match what I'm looking for and I can't seem to make sense of how to do this so any help would be immensely appreciated.
I am running a command that generates this output:
I am trying to just grep "Mike Smith" but I get a match with all the other lines that contain those characters in addition to other words
I've tried variations of grep -x -w -o, etc without success.
I have also tried sed but I must confess that I do not understand the language enough to formulate a command that will give me what I need.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to accomplish this?
Thank you
Mike
on edit: I am not just trying to grep the shortest line or just the name. At some point I might need to grep a different line that has various matches too. I just need to know how to grep exactly what I input...no more and no less.
Last edited by Franklin52; 12-14-2012 at 03:23 AM..
Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
If you want to get what is exactly in a line of text
This means: precisely at the start of the line (^) find the string "Mike Smith" and "$" means that the end of the line is where the "$" is. No extra spaces or tabs.
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