Extracting string from Substring in shell script

Question

I have a line like this:

<option value="bo">Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central</option>

I want an output like this:

bo Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central

When I am trying to do with sed:

sed -r 's/.*value="(\S+).*">(\S+)<.*/\1 \2/'

It gives only:

bo Tibetan

Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance

<option value="bo">Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central</option> the line is like this — user3315336
– user3315336, Commented Jul 30, 2015 at 7:22

dinox0r · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-30 07:35:33Z

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The following modification to your original sed should work:

sed -r 's_.*value="(.*)">(.*)</option>_\1 \2_'

The following example:

sed -r 's_.*value="(.*)">(.*)</option>_\1 \2_' <<< '<option value="bo">Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central</option>'

Prints the desired output:

bo Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central

answered Jul 30, 2015 at 7:35

dinox0r

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