Re: grep regular expression for this

sinbad wrote:
grep should match a string like abc and should match whatever word
that follows it, and display
only these two matching words.

for example
-----------
abc
abc xyz
abcd
some text abc def

In the above file grep should match only lines 2 and 4 and give output

abc xyz
abc def

what can be the possible regular expressions

$ echo "abc
abc xyz
abcd
some text abc def" | egrep -o 'abc +[[:alpha:]]+'
abc xyz
abc def



John
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