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Holmes
Holmes

Reputation: 1079

Using SED command to get values from absolute path

I'm new to shell scripting. I need to get the value "test" from the below absolute path and print it. How can this be achieved using SED command. Please help.

/home/path/test_script/logs

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (3)

Marcel
Marcel

Reputation: 3268

In my opinion awk performs better this task. Using -F you can use multiple delimiters such as "/" and "_":

echo /home/path/test_script/logs | awk -F'/|_' '{print $4}'

Upvotes: 1

Nono Taps
Nono Taps

Reputation: 163

You can try awk command:

echo /home/path/test_script/logs | awk -F"/" '{print $4}' | cut -c1-4

Your output should be 'test'. You can also assign the 'test' value to a variable by doing the below:

var1=`echo /home/path/test_script/logs | awk -F"/" '{print $4}' | cut -c1-4`

Upvotes: 0

agc
agc

Reputation: 8446

sed code to first remove the _ and what's to the right of it, then the /s and what's to the left of those, leaving only "test".

echo /home/path/test_script/logs | sed 's/[_].*//;s,.*/,,g'

Output:

test

Upvotes: 0

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