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Asked: 2026-06-04T21:44:50+00:00

I’m trying to write a line in Bash that gets the Content-Type (without encoding)

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I’m trying to write a line in Bash that gets the Content-Type (without encoding) of a given URL. Thisi s what I have so far:

curl -Is http://www.google.com | sed -nr 's/^Content-Type: ([^;]*)/\1/Ip'

However, this is still printing text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 and not just text/html. Shouldn’t ([^;]*) stop the match after the first semicolon?

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you want is:

    curl -Is http://www.google.com | sed -nr 's/^Content-Type: ([^;]*).*/\1/Ip'

    Basically add a .* after the matching group so that the part after text/html; will not be output.

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