From: Adrian Tepes <adrain.f.tepes@...>
Date: 2010-12-14T22:59:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Grep a string

I think use sed is more convenient:
grep "sync;sync;reboot" cron* |head -1 | sed 's/[0-9*\\]//g;s/^[ ]*//'
If you want to use ruby to shave the expression you can find what you 
wanted in ruby regexp,it's a piece of cake in ruby world.

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