Grep regexp printing whole line instead of word match

Asked Oct 05 '19 at 14:59

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I have a following command:

grep -r theme.colors.* app

Which should print all the files and all words that follow the regexp.

Expected output:

app/components/dynamicForm/styles.js: theme.colors.text.subtitle

However, the output that I get is the following:

app/components/dynamicForm/styles.js: color:{ header: theme.colors.text.subtitle},

Can you tell me where am I making mistake?

asked Oct 05 '19 at 14:59

uksz

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Add option `-o` as first step. Quote your regex. Take a look at [word boundaries](https://stackoverflow.com/a/6664167/3776858). – Cyrus Oct 05 '19 at 15:02
Maybe try `"\btheme.colors.*(?=},)"`. – xyz Oct 05 '19 at 18:12
Try `grep -r -o 'theme\.colors\.[[:alnum:]_.]*' app` – Wiktor Stribiżew Oct 05 '19 at 22:16
I'd use `[^ }]*` for the character group before the `*`. – stevesliva Oct 07 '19 at 16:03

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