[SOLVED] linux extract string from a file

Issue

I would like to extract string after x_rundir from a file full with text.

Trying with

grep -w "x_rundir" xfile.txt

but it extracts whole sentence from the file

xfile.txt:

00:39:11-INFO: x_rundir: /i/am/a/path/

Expected result:

/i/am/a/path

Solution

You may use this gnu-grep command:

grep -oP 'x_rundir: \K\S+' xfile.txt

/i/am/a/path/

Here:

• -P enabled Perl regex mode
• -o prints only matched text
• \K resets matched info
• \S+ matches 1+ non-whitespaces

Answered By - anubhava

Answer Checked By - Pedro (WPSolving Volunteer)