Issue
From this post, I am able recognize the pattern object.*
by use or regex string m/(?<=object\.)\w*
. However, since I am unfamiliar with Linux, I cannot use the commands sed
or perl
properly to extract desired tokens. Thus, I need your help. My best guess is grep -E -n object file.txt | perl -nle 'm/(?<=object\.)\w*/; print $1'
.
Solution
You can use grep
or sed
:
grep -oP '(?<=object\.)\w+' file
sed -nE 's/.*object\.([[:alnum:]_]+).*/\1/p' file
See the online demo.
The grep -oP
allows you to use PCRE regex (with -P
option) and extract all matched texts (with -o
option).
The sed
command is more complex, it allows extracting matches (that are the last on a line) once per line: first, it suppresses the default line output with -n
and sets the regex flavor to POSIX ERE (with -E
), then matches a line with object.
+ one or more alphanumeric or underscore chars captured into \1
and replaces the full line with the Group 1 value, and only that result is returned.
Answered By - Wiktor Stribiżew Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (WPSolving Admin)