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Using -o with -v

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From: Arseny Sher <sher-ars <at> yandex.ru>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Using -o with -v
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:19:12 +0300

Hi,

Is it possible to output symbols which constitute non-matched
parts of text? For example, I expect

printf "banana\napple" | grep --invert-match --only-matching 'ban'

to produce

ana
apple

or

apple

, but it doesn't produce anything.

I need -o because I grep multiline pattern with -z.

--
Arseny Sher

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