Heyo guys. I am using bash script to get current location of my mouse, but I stuck with this. when I do:
xdotool getmouselocation
x:688 y:411 screen:0 window:98568199
I got my output as a string, I am kinda newbie. How can I get values of x and y into some variables, so I can use them further. Thank you.
The x coordinate is the first word in the output (taking for granted that the space is the word separator). y coordinate is the second one. So:
#!/bin/bash
#
output=$(xdotool getmouselocation)
x=$(echo $output | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d":" -f2)
y=$(echo $output | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d":" -f2)
echo "X= $x"
echo "Y= $y"
The awk prints the word you asked for ($1 or $2) and cut gives you what follows the ':' character.
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I am new to shell scripting and I found following line of code in a given script.
Could someone explain me with an example what the following line of code means
Path=`echo $line | awk -F '|' '{print $1}'`
echo $line will print the value of the variable $line, the | symbol means that the output of this will be passed (or piped) to another program/command/script. I will not attempt to explain awk here, but what is done above is that the output from the echo $line is taken and processed with it.
the option -FS as per awk man page means
-F fs Use fs for the input field separator
so the string after it will be used to split the input string given to awk into different fields. Example, you variable $line has a value of a|b it will be split into two fields a and b. What is to be done with this is specified within the '{}' expression.
Again, what can be done in there is next to infinite, here the only thing that is done is to print the first field which can be accessed with $1, or a in the above example ($2 would be b as can be guessed).
Finally, the output of this whole operation is then stored in the variable Path.
to summarize:
line="a|b"
echo $line | awk -F '|' '{print $1}'
> a
Path=`echo $line | awk -F '|' '{print $1}'`
echo $Path
> a
echo $line | awk -F '|' '{print $1}'
Explanation:
echo -> display a line of text
$line -> parameter expansion read the line
| -> A pipeline is a sequence of one or more commands separated by one of the control operators |
awk -> Invoke awk program
-F '|' -> Field separator as | for the data feed
'{print $1}' -> Print the first field
Example
echo 'a|b|c' | awk -F '|' '{print $1}'
will print a
I think this is just a complicated way to express
echo ${line%%|*}
i.e. write to stdout the part of the content of the variable line which goes up to - but not including - the first vertical bar.
Path=`echo $line | awk -F '|' '{print $1}'`
^ ^ ^ ^
| | | |
| | | print 1st column
| | |
| | input field separator
| |
| echo variable line
|
variable Path
-F'|' - by default awk splits record/line/row into columns by single space, but with |, awk splits by pipe
Above one can be written as
Path=$( awk -F '|' '{ print $1 }' <<< "$line" )
Suppose say
$ line="1|2|3"
$ Path=$( awk -F '|' '{ print $1 }' <<< "$line" )
$ echo $Path; # you get first column
1
Same as
$ Path=$( cut -d'|' -f1 <<< "$line" )
$ echo $Path;
1
the default field separator is ' ', if you have -F , means change default separator to '|'
In my script I have a variable $var which will hold a value "00135 00136 00137". I want to generate three files based on the values available in $var - if possible without using a loop.
For example, I need touch files with these names:
test.00136.txt
test.00137.txt
test.00138.txt
Avioding a while loop is possible with xargs.
First split the var into lines, use the string num as a placeholder and touch the files:
var="000135 00136 00137 00138 00139"
echo "${var}" | tr " " "\n" | xargs -I num touch test.num.txt
Edit:
Avoid tr with
echo -n "$var" | xargs -d' ' -n1 -Inum echo test.num.txt
The awk utility makes processing columnar data quite simple:
var="00135 00136 00137"
var1=$(echo "$var" | awk '{print $1}')
var2=$(echo "$var" | awk '{print $2}')
var3=$(echo "$var" | awk '{print $3}')
touch "test.${var1}.txt"
touch "test.${var2}.txt"
touch "test.${var3}.txt"
In shell,
s="abc\tdef\tghi" # 3 words separated by \t
What if I want to get the second word which is def?
PS
I know cut can do the job, but any way else just like variable substitution?
How about cut ?
[cnicutar#ariel ~]$ echo -e $s | cut -f2
def
Or maybe awk:
echo -e $s | awk '{print $2}'
Maybe you're looking for this.
s="abc\tdef\tghi"
s=${s#*\t}
s=${s%\\t*}
echo $s
Using OS X, I need a one line bash script to look at a client mac hostname like:
12345-BA-PreSchool-LT.local
Where the first 5 digits are an asset serial number, and the hyphens separate a business unit code from a department name followed by something like 'LT' to denote a laptop.
I guess I need to echo the hostname and use a combination of sed, awk and perhaps cut to strip characters out to leave me with:
"BA PreSchool"
Any help much appreciated. This is what I have so far:
echo $HOSTNAME | sed 's/...\(...\)//' | sed 's/.local//'
echo "12345-BA-PreSchool-LT.local" | cut -d'-' -f2,3 | sed -e 's/-/ /g'
(Not on OSX, so not sure if cut is defined)
I like to keep things simple :)
You could do it with just cut:
echo 12345-BA-PreSchool-LT.local | cut -d"-" -f2,3
BA-PreSchool
If you want to remove the hyphen you can use tr
echo 12345-BA-PreSchool-LT.local | cut -d"-" -f2,3 | tr "-" " "
BA PreSchool
How about
echo $HOSTNAME | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "-" } ; { print $2, $3 }'
Awk can solve your question easily.
echo "12345-BA-PreSchool-LT.local" | awk -F'-' '$0=$2" "$3'
BA PreSchool
bash$ string="12345-BA-PreSchool-LT.local"
bash$ IFS="-"
bash$ set -- $string
bash$ echo $2-$3
BA-PreSchool
Expecting this to print out abc - but I get nothing, every time, nothing.
echo abc=xyz | g="$(awk -F "=" '{print $1}')" | echo $g
A pipeline isn't a set of separate assignments. However, you could rewrite your current code as follows:
result=$(
echo 'abc=xyz' | awk -F '=' '{print $1}'
)
echo "$result"
However, a more Bash-centric solution without intermediate assignments could take advantage of a here-string. For example:
awk -F '=' '{print $1}' <<< 'abc=xyz'
Other solutions are possible, too, but this should be enough to get you started in the right direction.