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Regex for PCRE, grep, ripgrep, and sed/Extract quoted content

Print only the content inside double quotes on each line.

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Section: sed and Stream Editing

Extract quoted content

bash
bash
sed -En 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/p' file.txt
Explanation

The `-n` flag suppresses normal printing; `p` prints only successful substitutions.

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