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Why does grep (or tcgrep) "not do that easily"? Ah, that it prints only the match, not the whole line? If tcgrep doesn't already do that, I think you'd be well served to add that feature to tcgrep!

This can be done right from the Perl -e command line using the -n flag. example:  pull '^(\w+)' is simply perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /^(\w+)/"

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Re: Re: pull - a command line pipe-line building aid to pull perl regexps out of piped input
by cider (Acolyte) on Sep 27, 2001 at 08:56 UTC
    I'm quite proud of the ability to do it from a single usable command in a english resembling namespace. Others of its nature off the top of my head which I find useful when hacking at text manipulation and quick pipeline building is:
    "before", # pipe, print all text on line before given regexp
    "after", # pipe, print all text on line plus str after given regexp
    "and", # pipe, print all text and append string after line
    "between", # pipe, print text between regexp1 and regexp2
    "match", # pipe, print any line matching regexp
    "exclude", # pipe, print any line not matching regexp
    "matchand", # pipe, print any line matching regexp w/and
    "matchbefore", # pipe, print any line matching regexp w/before
    all of which are available here.
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