Without a .* except for the end could be done with multiples: sed "s/^[^\/]*//" /tmp/input | sed "s/^\///" | sed 's/[_\@].*//' On 2016-11-29 10:11 AM, Paul Sierks wrote:

.* Is greedy,

sed "s/^.*\/\([^_@]*\).*$/\1/"

Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using sed to massage some input. Specifically, I have input lines like

aaaaaaaaaa/BBBBB_ccc@00000 or aaaaaaaaaa/BBBBB@00000

and I want the output to always be

BBBBB

I've got most of it, but I can't figure out how to get rid of anything at the end of the line after EITHER the underscore OR the '@' (including either of those two characters).

Is this possible in one expression in sed? I can do it with piping the input through sed twice but I was wondering if one pass would do it. Currently I'm using

sed "s/^.*\/\(.*\)[_@].*$/\1/"

Which doesn't get rid of the "_ccc" when it appears, just the "@00000".

Suggestions?

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