Question

I am trying to extract all text which is present before the first occurrence of sign “/>” using csh script.
I tried the following code

set product3 = echo "$product1" | sed 's/\/>$//'

bt the output I am getting is the string exist before last occurrence of “/>”

please help !!

Answer 1

You’re sed replacement is off by just a bit:

% echo "<<one/><two/>/>" | sed 's/\/>.*$//'
<<one

using the .* will cause sed to greedily consume all the characters from the first match until the end of the string, which I think is what you want.