Say I have a string like
s1="sxfn://xfn.oxbr.ac.uk:8843/xfn/mech2?XFN=/castor/
xf.oxbr.ac.uk/prod/oxbr.ac.uk/disk/xf20.m.ac.uk/prod/v1.8/pienug_ib-2/reco_c21_dr3809_r35057.dst"
or
s2="sxfn://xfn.gla.ac.uk:8841/xfn/mech2?XFN=/castor/
xf.gla.ac.uk/space/disk1/prod/v1.8/pienug_ib-2/reco_c21_dr3809_r35057.dst"
and I want in my script to extract the last part starting from prod/ i.e. "prod/v1.8/pienug_ib-2/reco_c21_dr3809_r35057.dst". Note that $s1 contains two occurrences of "prod/".
What is the most elegant way to do this in bash?
Using BASH string manipulations you can do:
echo "prod/${s1##*prod/}"
prod/v1.8/pienug_ib-2/reco_c21_dr3809_r35057.dst
echo "prod/${s2##*prod/}"
prod/v1.8/pienug_ib-2/reco_c21_dr3809_r35057.dst
With awk (which is a little overpowered for this, but it may be helpful if you have a file full of these strings you need to parse:
echo "sxfn://xfn.gla.ac.uk:8841/xfn/mech2?XFN=/castor/xf.gla.ac.uk/space/disk1/prod/v1.8/pienug_ib-2/reco_c21_dr3809_r35057.dst" | awk -F"\/prod" '{print "/prod"$NF}'
That's splitting the string by '/prod' then printing out the '/prod' delimiter and the last token in the string ($NF)
sed can do it nicely:
s1="sxfn://xfn.oxbr.ac.uk:8843/xfn/mech2?XFN=/castor/xf.oxbr.ac.uk/prod/oxbr.ac.uk/disk/xf20.m.ac.uk/prod/v1.8/pienug_ib-2/reco_c21_dr3809_r35057.dst"
echo "$s1" | sed 's/.*\/prod/\/prod/'
this relies on the earger matching of the .* part up front.
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I have two strings saved in a bash variable delimited by :. I want to get extract the second string, prepend that with THIS_VAR= and append it to a file named saved.txt
For example if myVar="abc:pqr", THIS_VAR=pqr should be appended to saved.txt.
This is what I have so far,
myVar="abc:pqr"
echo $myVar | cut -d ':' -f 2 >> saved.txt
How do I prepend THIS_VAR=?
printf 'THIS_VAR=%q\n' "${myVar#*:}"
See Shell Parameter Expansion and run help printf.
The more general solution in addition to #konsolebox's answer is piping into a compound statement, where you can perform arbitrary operations:
echo This is in the middle | {
echo This is first
cat
echo This is last
}
I have the following string:
|**barak**.version|2001.0132012031539|
in file text.txt.
I would like to replace it with the following:
|**barak**.version|2001.01.2012031541|
So I run:
sed -i "s/\|\*\*$module\*\*.version\|2001.0132012031539/|**$module**.version|$version/" text.txt
but the result is a duplicate instead of replacing:
|**barak**.version|2001.01.2012031541|**barak**.version|2001.0132012031539|
What am I doing wrong?
Here is the value for module and version:
$ echo $module
barak
$ echo $version
2001.01.2012031541
Assumptions:
lines of interest start and end with a pipe (|) and have one more pipe somewhere in the middle of the data
search is based solely on the value of ${module} existing between the 1st/2nd pipes in the data
we don't know what else may be between the 1st/2nd pipes
the version number is the only thing between the 2nd/3rd pipes
we don't know the version number that we'll be replacing
Sample data:
$ module='barak'
$ version='2001.01.2012031541'
$ cat text.txt
**barak**.version|2001.0132012031539| <<<=== leave this one alone
|**apple**.version|2001.0132012031539|
|**barak**.version|2001.0132012031539| <<<=== replace this one
|**chuck**.version|2001.0132012031539|
|**barak**.peanuts|2001.0132012031539| <<<=== replace this one
One sed solution with -Extended regex support enabled and making use of a capture group:
$ sed -E "s/^(\|[^|]*${module}[^|]*).*/\1|${version}|/" text.txt
Where:
\| - first occurrence (escaped pipe) tells sed we're dealing with a literal pipe; follow-on pipes will be treated as literal strings
^(\|[^|]*${module}[^|]*) - first capture group that starts at the beginning of the line, starts with a pipe, then some number of non-pipe characters, then the search pattern (${module}), then more non-pipe characters (continues up to next pipe character)
.* - matches rest of the line (which we're going to discard)
\1|${version}| - replace line with our first capture group, then a pipe, then the new replacement value (${version}), then the final pipe
The above generates:
**barak**.version|2001.0132012031539|
|**apple**.version|2001.0132012031539|
|**barak**.version|2001.01.2012031541| <<<=== replaced
|**chuck**.version|2001.0132012031539|
|**barak**.peanuts|2001.01.2012031541| <<<=== replaced
An awk alternative using GNU awk:
awk -v mod="$module" -v vers="$version" -F \| '{ OFS=FS;split($2,map,".");inmod=substr(map[1],3,length(map[1])-4);if (inmod==mod) { $3=vers } }1' file
Pass two variables mod and vers to awk using $module and $version. Set the field delimiter to |. Split the second field into array map using the split function and using . as the delimiter. Then strip the leading and ending "**" from the first index of the array to expose the module name as inmod using the substr function. Compare this to the mod variable and if there is a match, change the 3rd delimited field to the variable vers. Print the lines with short hand 1
Pipe is only special when you're using extended regular expressions: sed -E
There's no reason why you need extended here, stick with basic regex:
sed "
# for lines matching module.version
/|\*\*$module\*\*.version|/ {
# replace the version
s/|2001.0132012031539|/|$version|/
}
" text.txt
or as an unreadable one-liner
sed "/|\*\*$module\*\*.version|/ s/|2001.0132012031539|/|$version|/" text.txt
I have a string like this:
/var/cpanel/users/joebloggs:DNS9=domain.example
I need to extract the username (joebloggs) from this string and store it in a variable.
The format of the string will always be the same with exception of joebloggs and domain.example so I am thinking the string can be split twice using cut?
The first split would split by : and we would store the first part in a variable to pass to the second split function.
The second split would split by / and store the last word (joebloggs) into a variable
I know how to do this in PHP using arrays and splits but I am a bit lost in bash.
To extract joebloggs from this string in bash using parameter expansion without any extra processes...
MYVAR="/var/cpanel/users/joebloggs:DNS9=domain.example"
NAME=${MYVAR%:*} # retain the part before the colon
NAME=${NAME##*/} # retain the part after the last slash
echo $NAME
Doesn't depend on joebloggs being at a particular depth in the path.
Summary
An overview of a few parameter expansion modes, for reference...
${MYVAR#pattern} # delete shortest match of pattern from the beginning
${MYVAR##pattern} # delete longest match of pattern from the beginning
${MYVAR%pattern} # delete shortest match of pattern from the end
${MYVAR%%pattern} # delete longest match of pattern from the end
So # means match from the beginning (think of a comment line) and % means from the end. One instance means shortest and two instances means longest.
You can get substrings based on position using numbers:
${MYVAR:3} # Remove the first three chars (leaving 4..end)
${MYVAR::3} # Return the first three characters
${MYVAR:3:5} # The next five characters after removing the first 3 (chars 4-9)
You can also replace particular strings or patterns using:
${MYVAR/search/replace}
The pattern is in the same format as file-name matching, so * (any characters) is common, often followed by a particular symbol like / or .
Examples:
Given a variable like
MYVAR="users/joebloggs/domain.example"
Remove the path leaving file name (all characters up to a slash):
echo ${MYVAR##*/}
domain.example
Remove the file name, leaving the path (delete shortest match after last /):
echo ${MYVAR%/*}
users/joebloggs
Get just the file extension (remove all before last period):
echo ${MYVAR##*.}
example
NOTE: To do two operations, you can't combine them, but have to assign to an intermediate variable. So to get the file name without path or extension:
NAME=${MYVAR##*/} # remove part before last slash
echo ${NAME%.*} # from the new var remove the part after the last period
domain
Define a function like this:
getUserName() {
echo $1 | cut -d : -f 1 | xargs basename
}
And pass the string as a parameter:
userName=$(getUserName "/var/cpanel/users/joebloggs:DNS9=domain.example")
echo $userName
What about sed? That will work in a single command:
sed 's#.*/\([^:]*\).*#\1#' <<<$string
The # are being used for regex dividers instead of / since the string has / in it.
.*/ grabs the string up to the last backslash.
\( .. \) marks a capture group. This is \([^:]*\).
The [^:] says any character _except a colon, and the * means zero or more.
.* means the rest of the line.
\1 means substitute what was found in the first (and only) capture group. This is the name.
Here's the breakdown matching the string with the regular expression:
/var/cpanel/users/ joebloggs :DNS9=domain.example joebloggs
sed 's#.*/ \([^:]*\) .* #\1 #'
Using a single Awk:
... | awk -F '[/:]' '{print $5}'
That is, using as field separator either / or :, the username is always in field 5.
To store it in a variable:
username=$(... | awk -F '[/:]' '{print $5}')
A more flexible implementation with sed that doesn't require username to be field 5:
... | sed -e s/:.*// -e s?.*/??
That is, delete everything from : and beyond, and then delete everything up until the last /. sed is probably faster too than awk, so this alternative is definitely better.
Using a single sed
echo "/var/cpanel/users/joebloggs:DNS9=domain.example" | sed 's/.*\/\(.*\):.*/\1/'
I like to chain together awk using different delimitators set with the -F argument. First, split the string on /users/ and then on :
txt="/var/cpanel/users/joebloggs:DNS9=domain.com"
echo $txt | awk -F"/users/" '{print$2}' | awk -F: '{print $1}'
$2 gives the text after the delim, $1 the text before it.
I know I'm a little late to the party and there's already good answers, but here's my method of doing something like this.
DIR="/var/cpanel/users/joebloggs:DNS9=domain.example"
echo ${DIR} | rev | cut -d'/' -f 1 | rev | cut -d':' -f1
I have a string:
Log for: squid.log.2017.11.13
I need to cut out squid.log. so that I see:
Log for: 2017.11.13
I tried to cut
echo "Log for: squid.log.2017.11.13" | cut -d'.' -f3-5
But I ended up with:
2017.11.13
How can I get the result I want?
You can use sed to cut the unwanted part:
echo "Log for: squid.log.2017.11.13" | sed 's/squid\.log\.//'
Use sed to remove the part you don't want:
echo "Log for: squid.log.2017.11.13" | sed 's/squid\.log\.//'
awk to the rescue! a non-standard approach to break the monotony...
define the to be removed text as field separator and parse and print the input line.
$ echo Log for: squid.log.2017.11.13 | awk -F' squid\\.log\\.' '{$1=$1}1'
Log for: 2017.11.13
This solution is a bit more reusable than the previous ones offered:
awk '/^Log/{ split($3,x,"."); print $1" "$2" "x[length(x)-2]"."x[length(x)-1]"."x[length(x)] };'
This looks for all lines starting with Log, then grabs the 3rd column which contains squid.log.2017.11.13 and utilizes the the split built-in to break up the string in to array x using the . as the delimiter. Once we have our array x, we know that the last 3 values will always be the date, and this will work regardless of the rest of the string, (even if squid.log was something different) - we can use the length built-in to make sure we only get the last three elements.
Then we just print our reformatted string print $1" "$2" "x[length(x)-2]"."x[length(x)-1]"."x[length(x)] - reinserting the .'s in the appropriate places since they were stripped by using them as the split delimiter.
Output:
Log for: 2017.11.13
for example qa_sharutils-2009-04-22-15-20-39, want chop last 20 bytes, and get 'qa_sharutils'.
I know how to do it in sed, but why $A=${A/.\{20\}$/} does not work?
Thanks!
If your string is stored in a variable called $str, then this will get you give you the substring without the last 20 digits in bash
${str:0:${#str} - 20}
basically, string slicing can be done using
${[variableName]:[startIndex]:[length]}
and the length of a string is
${#[variableName]}
EDIT:
solution using sed that works on files:
sed 's/.\{20\}$//' < inputFile
similar to substr('abcdefg', 2-1, 3) in php:
echo 'abcdefg'|tail -c +2|head -c 3
using awk:
echo $str | awk '{print substr($0,1,length($0)-20)}'
or using strings manipulation - echo ${string:position:length}:
echo ${str:0:$((${#str}-20))}
In the ${parameter/pattern/string} syntax in bash, pattern is a path wildcard-style pattern, not a regular expression. In wildcard syntax a dot . is just a literal dot and curly braces are used to match a choice of options (like the pipe | in regular expressions), so that line will simply erase the literal string ".20".
There are several ways to accomplish the basic task.
$ str="qa_sharutils-2009-04-22-15-20-39"
If you want to strip the last 20 characters. This substring selection is zero based:
$ echo ${str::${#str}-20}
qa_sharutils
The "%" and "%%" to strip from the right hand side of the string. For instance, if you want the basename, minus anything that follows the first "-":
$ echo ${str%%-*}
qa_sharutils
only if your last 20 bytes is always date.
$ str="qa_sharutils-2009-04-22-15-20-39"
$ IFS="-"
$ set -- $str
$ echo $1
qa_sharutils
$ unset IFS
or when first dash and beyond are not needed.
$ echo ${str%%-*}
qa_sharutils