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timbram
timbram

Reputation: 1865

egrep for lines matching a pattern but exclude pattern from output

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I am trying to use egrep on a file like the following:

ABCD(something):    Some very good code;
ABCD(somethingElse):    Some other very good code;
ABCD(somethingElseElse):    Some other very good code;

I want to produce output like the following:

    Some very good code;
    Some other very good code;
    Some other very good code;

I am using the following grep command:

egrep -RIn --color "ABCD(.+):" grep_log_test.txt

Which works but is also outputting the matched pattern. How can I exclude the pattern from the output? I see the -o option but that just prints the patten match only...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 689

Answers (1)

Super-intelligent Shade
Super-intelligent Shade

Reputation: 6449

As I've mentioned in the comments above, sed is probably the best and easiest tool to use here, as in:

sed 's/ABCD(.\+): *//'

It uses the s command to match ABCD(.\+): * between first set of slashes and replace it with (empty string) between second set of slashes.

Upvotes: 1

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