How to do a non-greedy match in grep?

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You’re looking for a non-greedy (or lazy) match. To get a non-greedy match in regular expressions you need to use the modifier ? after the quantifier. For example you can change .* to .*?.

By default grep doesn’t support non-greedy modifiers, but you can use grep -P to use the Perl syntax.

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