Need help with bash + regex

onesikgypo · 01-10-2009, 08:57 AM

Hi, im trying to extract some text from a string via regex, the string is like this:

bla bla<abc><def><ghi>...

i only require everything before the first <, and there may be an infinite number of <text> after the string i require.

ive tried using

string=`expr match "$string" '$.*$<'`

however ive had no luck

any help would be greatly appreciated.

colucix · 01-10-2009, 09:22 AM

Code:

string=${string%%<*}

onesikgypo · 01-10-2009, 10:08 AM

thats an alot easier solution, thankyou