Using sed to extract a substring in curly brackets

Question

I've currently got a string as below: ``` integration@{Wed Nov 19 14:17:32 2014} branch: thebranch ``` This is contained in a file, and I parse the string. However I want the value between the brackets `{Wed Nov 19 14:17:32 2014}` I have zero experience with Sed, and to be honest I find it a little cryptic. So far I've managed to use the following command, however the output is still the entire string. What am I doing wrong? ``` sed -e 's/[^/{]*"$[^/}]*$.*/\1/' ```

Accepted Answer

To get the values which was between `{`, `}`

```
$ sed 's/^[^{]*{$[^{}]*$}.*/\1/' file
Wed Nov 19 14:17:32 2014
```

Using sed to extract a substring in curly brackets

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