How do I match emails with only top level domain using regex

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I've been trying to write a regex pattern to only match top level domain using bash i.e
person@email.com or person1@email.uk would be valid but person@email.co.uk would be invalid.

What I have tried:

grep -E -o '[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,}' myfile.html

This however still produces the undesired result.

Posted 25-Nov-20 3:33am

DrewMc

Updated 22-Mar-22 7:12am

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CHill60 25-Nov-20 9:41am

why would "person@email.co.uk" be invalid? Perfectly valid email address, whereas "person1@email.uk" is not. Perhaps that's your problem :laugh:

DrewMc 25-Nov-20 9:46am

It is not that it is invalid in the real world. I just don't want it picked up.

CHill60 25-Nov-20 10:40am

Fair enough. Was it you that downvoted OriginalGriff's Solution?

Patrice T 25-Nov-20 11:50am

Show sample input and output.
and explain in what it is undesired.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2020-11-25T03:47:00

It's a bad idea.
But ...

^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@[^\.]+\.[^\.]+$

Will do it.
You'll be eliminating a heck of a lot of valid emails though! (And letting bad ones though as well ...)

If you are going to use Regular Expressions, then get a copy of Expresso[^] - it's free, and it examines and generates Regular expressions.