grep match till the first occurence of a character

I am tying to grep from the below

I am trying:

$ echo ''| grep -o "]>"

I am getting the above. So how to get only

Answer

echo ''| grep -o "]*>"

Your .* is greedy, it matched the first > and beyond. My [^>]* is also greedy, but it cannot match anything that includes >, so > in the pattern matches the first occurrence of > in the input for sure.