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$ acpi
Battery 0: Charging, 18%, 01:37:09 until charged
How to grep the battery level value without percentage character (18)?
This should do it but I'm getting an empty result:
acpi | grep -e '(?<=, )(.*)(?=%)'
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The grep command (short for Global Regular Expressions Print) is a powerful text processing tool for searching through files and directories. When grep is combined with regex (regular expressions), advanced searching and output filtering become simple.
grep itself doesn't support wildcards on most platforms.
Your regex is correct but will work with experimental -P or perl mode regex option in gnu grep. You will also need -o to show only matching text.
Correct command would be:
grep -oP '(?<=, )\d+(?=%)'
However, if you don't have gnu grep then you can also use sed like this:
sed -nE 's/.*, ([0-9]+)%.*/\1/p' file
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