Non greedy (reluctant) regex matching in sed?
I’m trying to use sed to clean up lines of URLs to extract just the domain. So from: http://www.suepearson.co.uk/product/174/71/3816/ I want: http://www.suepearson.co.uk/ (either with or without the trailing slash, it doesn’t matter) I have tried: sed ‘s|\(http:\/\/.*?\/\).*|\1|’ and (escaping the non-greedy quantifier) sed ‘s|\(http:\/\/.*\?\/\).*|\1|’ but I can not seem to get the non-greedy quantifier (?) … Read more
