How to delete all characters in one line after "]" with sed ?
Im trying to grep some file using cat, awk. Now my oneliner returns me something like
121.122.121.111] other characters in logs from sendmail.... :)
Now I want to delete all after "]" character (with "]"). I want only 121.122.121.111 in my output.
I was googling for that particular example of sed but didn't find any help in those examples.
echo "121.122.121.111] other characters in logs from sendmail...." | sed 's/].*//' So if you have a file full of lines like that you can do
sed 's/].*//' filename How about cut instead:
cat logfile | cut -d "]" -f1 Something like
sed 's|\(.*\)\] .*$|\1|' should do what you want. The \(.*\)] will capture all the text up to the ] into a remembered pattern and then the \1 substitutes it for the whole line.