Is their an application to extract data from files?

Question

I want to extract data from large group of files based on a regular expression.

Is their an application, script, batch or terminal command to do this?

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '11 at 16:15

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grep should be what you want. It is very powerful. You can search multiple files for a pattern and you can even select the matcher.

There are many many options so you should really look up its man page I've linked you to.

answered Mar 27 '11 at 16:15

Octavian Helm

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awk and sed are also very powerful tools for parsing text files. – Nick Pascucci Mar 27 '11 at 16:41
@codeMonk very true. You should post that as an answer. – Octavian Helm Mar 27 '11 at 16:55
yes grep is very powerful!! But is there a way to output the found regexp? grep usually outputs the whole line + filename – malhobayyeb Mar 31 '11 at 22:37

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