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How do I find the overlap of two strings in bash?

I have two strings. For the sake of the example they are set like this: string1="test toast" string2="test test" What I want is to find the overlap starting at the beginning of the strings. With ...
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grep surrounding characters of a match

I'm looking to do a find and replace within a giant database dump, and it's not doing what I think should happen. I'd like to grep for my target string in the file, and then see the surrounding 8 ...
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remove only specific text occurrences from string using sed

I have a text file that contains many rows of this sort of thing: /*[17:51:27][1 ms]*/ UPDATE `country` SET `region_id` = '4' WHERE `country_id` = '36'; Is there a way that I can use sed to remove ...