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Regular Expression Search and parse?



 We all know what "grep" does, but does anyone know of a utility that 
uses parameterized regular expressions as a search mechanism and outputs 
only the parameters that were found? Sort of like the regex function call. 

So, if I have file with a lot of lines that look like this: 

Title: The Long and Winding Road [ISBN:123456] 
Descr: A boring book about boring roads 
Author: A dull cab driver 
... 

I could execute: 

myregex "Title:*\[ISBN:$1\]" file.txt 
123456 
... 

and get an output of all the ISBN numbers 


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