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I have following text in a file

 "rules": [
 "/Common/Tetration_TCP_L4_ipfix",
 "/Common/_sys_https_redirect"
 ],
 "rulesReference": [
 
 "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/rule/~Common~Tetration_TCP_L4_ipfix?ver=12.0.0"
 

want to extract anything inside "rules":
currently it is

/Common/Tetration_TCP_L4_ipfix
/Common/_sys_https_redirect

Output should look like

Tetration_TCP_L4_ipfix
_sys_https_redirect

but again this can be anything.

If your input file contains non full-fledged JSON but only inner fragment (though structurally valid) you may recover the missing "outer" parts to get a full valid JSON structure.

sed + jq solution:

jq -r '.rules | sub("/Common/"; "")' <(sed '1 s/^//; $ s/$/]/' file)

The output:

Tetration_TCP_L4_ipfix
_sys_https_redirect

Of course, if in real you have a valid JSON - just skip the sed processing and just use:

jq -r '.rules | sub("/Common/"; "")' file

If this is a well-formed JSON file:

$ jq -r '..|select(type=="object" and has("rules")).rules|map(split("/")|.[-1])|.' file.json
Tetration_TCP_L4_ipfix
_sys_https_redirect

This will use jq to recursively find all the JSON objects that has a rules key. For all the array values of those keys, it will split the value on / and return the last component of it.

Using AWK:

awk -F '[/"]' '/"rules": /,/],/if(/"rules": ' file.txt