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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed - Removing all characters from token to end of line Post 302786985 by mirni on Thursday 28th of March 2013 01:30:36 PM
Old 03-28-2013
I agree that awk solution is more readable, but just for the heck of it, here is sed command that should do the trick:
Code:
sed 's/.*\("[^"]*"\).*/\1/'

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