Grep the ip address from the file

Question

I have a file with conf extension with the below content

[ {agent, "xyz://BC:abc@10.0.0.1"}
[ {agent, "xyz://BC:abc@10.0.0.1"}  % content

And I need to extract the IP 10.0.0.1

Answer 1

grep 'xyz://BC:' /pathtofile/*.conf | cut -d'@' -f2 | cut -d'"' -f1|head -1

Comments

Explanation:
Syntax:
cut OPTION... [FILE]...
-d, --delimiter=DELIM   # use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
-f, --fields=LIST       # select only these fields;  also print any line that.
> head: to see the file from top and 1 means first line