How to do a non-greedy match in grep?

Question

I want to grep the shortest match and the pattern should be something like:

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Answer 1

grep

For non-greedy match in grep you could use a negated character class. In other words, try to avoid wildcards.

For example, to fetch all links to jpeg files from the page content, you'd use:

grep -o '"[^" ]\+.jpg"'

To deal with multiple line, pipe the input through xargs first. For performance, use ripgrep.