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Using Unix text manipulation command such as grep to input select text into a file

Tags: unix, text, manipulation, grep
Calling all the text manipulation guru out here. I believe using grep might allow me to accomplish this.
I have a sourcefile.txt which could contain hundred of lines which looks something like:
*******************************************************************************************
55701 24-Jan-2007   00000001 Smith, John M    \\srv1\H\folder1
71299 15-May-2007  039655 Williams, Jack     \\srv2\Z\folder3
********************************************************************************************

I need to extract only the portions starting with double backslash \\ and dump that into a destination file that will look like:
********************************************************************************************
\\srv1\H\folder1
\\srv2\Z\folder3
********************************************************************************************

I basically need the right grep switches I guess to do this. I was considering a command that looked something like this:
cat sourcefile.txt | grep -i "(select all word segments that begins with \\)" > destinationfile.txt

Can this text extraction be accomplished?
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Question Asked By: exhaust
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