grep , sed or awk

[ziox]

HellO...

how can i grep a specific string
i want to grep something like this <whatIwant> i want this only So
i tried
grep -o "\<*\>" file > tofile Didn't work
grep -o "<*>" file > tofile Didn't work also
i want to grep just words between this '<' and this '>' symbols

grep,sed or awk all any ...

[unixadmin]

This may help you get closer to what you are looking for:

grep "<.*>" file > tofile

If you want to remove the "<>" from the output, check out the command cut.  

Hope this helps!

[Gray]

why are you adding '<' and '>' you do not need them for grep to work

just say
grep string file

and you are done

use ' ' to enclose strings if their is space in between them