How to grep for contents after pattern?

Question

Given a file, for example:

potato: 1234
apple: 5678
potato: 5432
grape: 4567
banana: 5432
sushi: 56789

I\'d like to grep for all lines that

Answer 1

This will print everything after each match, on that same line only:

perl -lne 'print $1 if /^potato:\s*(.*)/' file.txt

This will do the same, except it will also print all subsequent lines:

perl -lne 'if ($found){print} elsif (/^potato:\s*(.*)/){print $1; $found++}' file.txt

These command-line options are used:

• -n loop around each line of the input file
• -l removes newlines before processing, and adds them back in afterwards
• -e execute the perl code