How to extract part of a string in Bash?
That will work in a single command: 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.
How to parse a string using keywords in Bash?
Currently, awk isn’t searching for longitude, it solely is taking the whole string and finding the 9th string. Ideally, I would like to use a regex/keyword approach and find longitude and then the next string after. I have tried using grep | cut also tried sed. No luck, best I can do is using awk.
Can a string be split twice using cut?
The format of the string will always be the same with exception of joebloggs and domain.com 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.
How to get file name without path in Bash?
Remove the file name, leaving the path (delete shortest match after last / ): 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:
How to extract the last word from a string?
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…
How to extract 5 digits from filename in Bash?
Given a filename in the form someletters_12345_moreleters.ext, I want to extract the 5 digits and put them into a variable. So to emphasize the point, I have a filename with x number of characters then a five digit sequence surrounded by a single underscore on either side then another set of x number of characters.
How is the FN string iterated in Bash?
In english, you can think of it behaving like this: the FN string is iterated character by character until we see an _ at which point the capture group is opened and we attempt to match five digits. If that matching is successful to this point, the capture group saves the five digits traversed.