using sed to print all words starting with "-l" in a line

[Jayesh shah]

Hi ,
Does any one know how to print all the words starting with a "-l" on a line (using sed)?

Thanks,
shah

[Herve BRANGIER]

Hi

Why do you want to do that with sed ?

I don't if you can but it's simple with :
grep "^-l"

HTH

Herv?

[Jayesh shah]

I do not want the whole line.I want only the word that begins with a -l.
anyway i got the solution:

awk '{ for( i = 1 ; i <= NF ; i++) { if( $i ~ /^-l/) print $i } }'

Thanks,
Shah

[Herve BRANGIER]

Hi

Ok. Too way to do that with sed or grep :

grep "^PATTERN" file

is the same as

sed -n s/^PATTERN/PATTERN/p

And you can add


| cut -f1 -d' '

to have only the first word only...

Herv?

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