Using grep to get the next WORD after a match in each line

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Assuming you have gnu grep, you can use perl-style regex to do a positive lookbehind:

grep -oP '(?<=GET\s/)\w+' file

If you don’t have gnu grep, then I’d advise just using sed:

sed -n '/^.*GET[[:space:]]\{1,\}\/\([-_[:alnum:]]\{1,\}\).*$/s//\1/p' file

If you happen to have gnu sed, that can be greatly simplified:

sed -n '/^.*GET\s\+\/\(\w\+\).*$/s//\1/p' file

The bottom line here is, you certainly don’t need pipes to accomplish this. grep or sed alone will suffice.

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