Question

how to get the second word (string) after “=” separator by sed (need to ignore spaces)

for example

   echo " bla bla word word1 = strin1 string2 " | sed .....

I should get string2

another example

    echo " bla bla word word1 =swhsw 123  " | sed .....

I should get 123

Answer 1

I believe awk is a better solution for this case, simply use.

echo "bla bla word word1 = strin1 string2" | awk -F"=" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $2}'