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Re: Delete all after a pattern



On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 02:17:30PM +0200, Computer Planet wrote:
> Yes, something like this
> $ sed -E 's/(.*config=).*/\1/'
> but something I had already tried but not work...

Well, for me it works:

    echo "some text before config=mumble mumble" | sed -e 's/\(^.*config=\).*/\1/'
    => some text before config=

(note that I anchored the regexp at the beginning of the
line with ^, but that's not strictly necessary. It works
without, too).

Cheers
-- t

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