[techtalk] help with sorting text in a file

[srl]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, alissa bader wrote:

> I need to grab a list of stuff with a matching pattern
> in a log file.  Specifically, anything containing the
> 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
> know I did something like this before, but I didn't
> write it down and now I forget.  Argh again!

what part of the line do you need to grab, other than QAA?
got some sample data?

srl

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