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hexce
hexce

Reputation: 161

sed or awk regex, stop matching after semi-colon

I have a multiple strings in a file that looks like this

TXT 20131101 094502,20131101 094502,Fri Nov  1 09:45:02 UTC 2013;

I want a regex that will get everything after TXT and only display that up until the ; using sed or awk

I have tried many ways but I cant seem to get it to stop at the ;

Thanks for any help

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1523

Answers (2)

NeronLeVelu
NeronLeVelu

Reputation: 10039

 sed "s/TXT\([^;]*\);.*/\1/"

between TXT (so also first space if any) and first ; (not included)

reply from devnull include the "TXT" in the output

Upvotes: 0

devnull
devnull

Reputation: 123608

I want a regex that will get everything after TXT and only display that up until the ;

grep -oP 'TXT[^;]*' filename

Using awk:

awk -F';' '{print $1}' filename

Using sed:

sed 's/\([^;]*\).*/\1/' filename

Upvotes: 6

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