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bug #29827: 2.6.3 FEATURE REQUEST: Extend --only-matching to accept submatch

Submitter:	Jari Aalto <jaalto>
Submitted:	Sat 08 May 2010 12:42:03 PM UTC
Category:	None	Severity:	3 - Normal
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Open/Closed:	Open

Sun 09 May 2010 02:00:09 PM UTC, comment #1:  For backwards compatibility the optional argument could only be added to the long option; with that caveat I like this change.	Paolo Bonzini <bonzini>
Sat 08 May 2010 12:42:03 PM UTC, original submission:   Manual page reads:        -o, --only-matching               Print only the matched (non-empty) parts  of  a  matching  line,               with each such part on a separate output line. FEATURE REQUEST Extend the option to accept additional numeric argument to control the submatch returned. (By default 0). This woudl make it possible to run:   echo "Program version 1.12" | grep -E -o 1 "Program.*([0-9.]+)"	Jari Aalto <jaalto>

 

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