终端中的grep和regex-在首次出现字符时停止

Question

I am trying to match phrases like translatedString:@"the string"]

I have entered the following in Terminal, which works but brings back everything in the line after the match

grep -oh 'translatedString:.*]' ArticleV.m

How can I adjust the expression so that it only returns matches until the ] is found?

Answer 1

.* matches greedily. Use .*? (and an extended regular expression) instead:

grep -ohE 'translatedString:.*?]' ArticleV.m

If you don't like the -E flag, egrep works the same way:

egrep -oh 'translatedString:.*?]' ArticleV.m