Displaying only data matching a pattern?

[Ben Scott]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> wrote:
> grep should have a -o option to only output the match

  That was brought up -- and useful it is -- but it has problems when
you only want to see the match but your target pattern has to include
delimiters.

  For those so interested, the complete thread can be found here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/16551

-- Ben