Extract parts of text using sed,awk

Question

I've below text, how can I extract list

[83472, 8327489] and abcd: 32324 ?

[83472, 8327489]abcd: 32324Expr bla bla
[243fd]abcd: 4342Expr ieddsk
[2324, 34543, 8937423]abcd: 3232432423423Expr bla bla

sjsam · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-01 19:19:35Z

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sed -E 's/(\[[^]]*\]abcd:[[:blank:]]*[[:digit:]]*).*/\1/' file

should do it.

Sample Output

[83472, 8327489]abcd: 32324
[243fd]abcd: 4342
[2324, 34543, 8937423]abcd: 3232432423423

answered Sep 1, 2016 at 19:19

sjsam

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Sundeep · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-02 03:05:37Z

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With grep and pcre

1) to extract upto but not including Expr and rest of line

$ grep -oP '.*(?=Expr)' file
[83472, 8327489]abcd: 32324
[243fd]abcd: 4342
[2324, 34543, 8937423]abcd: 3232432423423

2) to extract [...]abcd: numbers

$ grep -oP '\[[^]]*\]abcd:\s*\d+' file
[83472, 8327489]abcd: 32324
[243fd]abcd: 4342
[2324, 34543, 8937423]abcd: 3232432423423

answered Sep 2, 2016 at 3:05

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