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hello how to remove and clear output ?

test.txt

http://urlcom/longStringxyzABC**|**http://urlcom/longStringxyzABC

i want, | including character deletion after

i want result

http://urlcom/longStringxyzABC

thanks

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sed 's/|.*//' test.txt

grep -oP '.*?(?=\|)' test.txt

awk -F'|' '{print $1}' test.txt
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  • grep -o outputs both (in general all) matches, which is not desired here. Commented Jun 26, 2018 at 1:58
  • @dave_thompson_085 oops good catch, I've amended using PCRE but please feel free to suggest a better alternative Commented Jun 26, 2018 at 2:09

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