[SOLVED] Non-crucial sed question: "grep'ing" and sed'ing with a single sed command?

[the dsc]

Nevermind/sorry, that was the output of some other sed command along the script, this command actually works!




Not really important, but I'm just curious. We often see things like "echo * | grep * | sed" when just one or two would suffice, I'm just revisiting some old scripts and finding this sort of thing, and trying to "fix" them.


I have a file list on a file (which happens to be stated as a variable), and one of those files in the list has a ">" preceding its path. I'm trying to use just sed to both grep that line, and strip just the file name. I'm almost there, I get the desired result, but there's an error message.

This is the command:

sed -n 's|>.*/||p' $filelistfile



And the error message is:

sed: -e expression #1, char 8: extra characters after command
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: extra characters after command


Twice, as it is.

It has, however, the same output of a grep | sed combo, before these messages!