Question

How to cut words before the first “END” word in line, and not include the first character before the “END” word ( in our examples the character is “-“)

Only with sed command

For example:

  echo AAA-BBB-CCC-END | sed ...
  AAA-BBB-CCC


  echo 1-END-3-4 | sed ...
  1     


  echo 1-2-END-3-4 | sed ...
  1-2


  echo PARAM1-PARAM2-END | sed ...
  PARAM1-PARAM2


  echo fileExample1-fileExample2-END | sed ...
  fileExample1-fileExample2


  echo xyz_123-END | sed ...
  xyz_123

Answer 1

sed "s/.END.*//"

This should do the trick.

It’ll remove the first char before the END, and all chars after (and of course the END itself).