remove string using sed that include slash

Question

Here is the data I have:

This is a test/><STUFF
This is a test/><TRY

I am trying to be rid of /><STUFF and /><TRY in bash using sed.

So as result having the two sentences.

This is a test
This is a test

Answer 1

Remove everything from the slash:

$ sed 's_/.*__' file
This is a test
This is a test

Note the usage of _ as delimiter, since the typical slash sed 's/find/replace/' file collides with the pattern you are looking for. You can also escape it.

Or with cut, set the delimiter as a slash and just print the first field:

$ cut -d'/' -f1 file
This is a test
This is a test

Although the cleanest is awk:

$ awk -F/ '{print $1}' file
This is a test
This is a test

A bash solution is:

while IFS="/" read name _
do
   echo "$name"
done < file