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Old 01-12-2016
Removing all characters up to initial '{'
Hi there,

Im having a bit of difficulty with this one and I suspect its because of the character I want to match against maybe causing me a problem, but i wanted to remove everything up to (but not including) the first instance of '{' in a string


so for example the string that I want to manupulate is ...

Code:
ok: [my_hostname] => {"ansible_facts": {"hw_eth0": {"addresstype": "assigned", "ipaddresses": [], "macaddress": "00:50:xx:bb:2e:e6" .....

I have highlighted in RED the point with which I want to keep ...The bit in blue at the beginning is what I want to remove

Code:
ok: [my_hostname] =>


So basically i want to remove everything up to but not including the first instance of '{' only .

I have tried various techniques none of which seem to be working for me, hence my arrival on this forum

Does anyone know a good way of doing this ?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated
thanks
# 2  
Old 01-12-2016
Try
Code:
echo 'ok: [my_hostname] => {"ansible_facts": {"hw_eth0": {"addresstype": "assigned", "ipaddresses": [], "macaddress": "00:50:xx:bb:2e:e6" .....' | sed 's/^[^{]*//'

# 3  
Old 01-12-2016
ah, the square brackets is where I went wrong , thanks RudiC
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