Displaying only data matching a pattern?

[Alan Johnson]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>  There might be a way to do this with awk, but my knowledge of awk is
> mostly limited to using it to print columns.  :)
>

Me too!  (like some brain-dead AOLer)

All I have ever used awk for is picking out a column that is white-space
delimited, but it is annoying for any other delimiter.  cut is great for
single-character delimiters, but is annoying for white space.  I fall back
to regex for multiple-character delimiters.

People keep telling me that awk is good for other things, then start showing
me some Klingon syntaxt and I just knod and smile with the understand that
we disagree on the definition of "good". =)  To be fair, even awk '{print
$5}' is a bear to get right until you type it 50 times.  I used to aways
switch the positioning of the ' and the {.  Oh well.
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