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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:44:36+00:00

I want an awk or sed command to print the word after regexp. I

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I want an awk or sed command to print the word after regexp.

I want to find the WORD after a WORD but not the WORD that looks similar.

The file looks like this:

 somethingsomething
 X-Windows-Icon=xournal
 somethingsomething
 Icon=xournal
 somethingsomething
 somethingsomething

I want “xournal” from the one that say “Icon=xournal”. This is how far i have come until now. I have tried an AWK string too but it was also unsuccessful. 

cat "${file}" | grep 'Icon=' | sed 's/.*Icon=//' >> /tmp/text.txt

But i get both so the text file gives two xournal which i don’t want.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use ^ to anchor the pattern at the beginning of the line. And you can even do the grepping directly within sed:

    sed -n '/^Icon=/ { s/.*=//; p; }' "$file" >> /tmp/text.txt

    You could also use awk, which I think reads a little better. Using = as the field separator, if field 1 is Icon then print field 2:

    awk -F= '$1=="Icon" {print $2}' "$file" >> /tmp/text.txt
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