I am attempting to parse (with sed
) just First Last
from the following DN(s) returned by the DSCL
command in OSX terminal bash environment...
CN=First Last,OU=PCS,OU=guests,DC=domain,DC=edu
I have tried multiple regexs from this site and others with questions very close to what I wanted... mainly this question... I have tried following the advice to the best of my ability (I don't necessarily consider myself a newbie...but definitely a newbie to regex..)
DSCL
returns a list of DNs, and I would like to only have First Last
printed to a text file. I have attempted using sed
, but I can't seem to get the correct function. I am open to other commands to parse the output. Every line begins with CN=
and then there is a comma between Last
and OU=
.
Thank you very much for your help!
Using sed:
sed 's/^CN=\([^,]*\).*/\1/' input_file
^ matches start of line CN= literal string match \([^,]*\) everything until a comma .* rest