On 8 November 2015 21:42:44 CET, Valerio Bozzolan <bozzolan.valerio@educ.di.unito.it> wrote:

Hi,

(First time in a GNU mailing list!)

I've already asked this question to my local GNU/Linux user group and in #grep@Freenode... I'm still confused.

GNU Grep don't have an arg to choose the subexpression. Right?

Stupid e.g.:
echo abcde | grep -o -E 'b([a-z])d'
=> "bcd"

What if I want the first subexpression? ("b")? GNU Grep can't do it. Isn't it? (Why?)

I actually use GNU Awk, or GNU Bash with $BASH_REMATCH[$n_sub].

Thank you for the clarification!
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Valerio Bozzolan
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