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tomli
Asked: 2018-01-07 07:12:52 +0800 CST

Grep --only-match without new line

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I want to use grep command to extract some strings from my data file.

data file format

a=1,b=2,c=3,
a=4,b=5,c=6,

I want the out format

a=1,c=3,
a=4,c=6,

I tried the below command

grep -Po 'a=.*?,|c=.*?,' data

But the output format is incorrect. Please teach me how to do it.

grep

1 Answers

  1. One possibility with sed would be as follows.

    sed -n 's/\(a=.\?,\)\(.*\)\(c=.\?\)/\1\3/p' data

    A more generic regex would be as follows.

    sed -n 's/\([a-zA-Z]=.\?,\)\([a-zA-Z]=.\?,\)\([a-zA-Z]=.\?,\)/\1\3/p' input
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