Drive by code review, you can end a line with the pipe (also && and ||) to avoid a backslash. some_command | grep -E 'some.*regex$' | sed -e 's

Drive by code review, you can end a line with the pipe (also && and ||) to avoid a backslash. some_command | grep -E 'some.*regex$' | sed -e 's/erase_text//g' | sed -e 's/erase_more//g' | awk '{ print $2 }' | cut -d ':' -f 1