[techtalk] help with sorting text in a file

[Ian Phillips]

> string "QAA."  Tried doing a grep, but I got the
> entire line again, not just the portion of it that
> contained "QAA."  Argh.  The frustrating thing is I

Is this what you want:

bash-2.02$ for i in `cat file_name_to_search`;do
> echo $i | grep QAA
> done

Yours,
Ian.

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