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Tom Xue
Tom Xue

Reputation: 3355

How to get the number from the script's result by shell command?

I run a command and get below result:

numid=181,iface=MIXER,name='pcm1_in Gain 0 Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=-1440,max=360,step=0
  : values=-360,-360
  | dBscale-min=-144.00dB,step=0.10dB,mute=0

I need to get the value -360, and this value can vary from -1440 to 360. How to use some shell commands and regular expression to do it? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (1)

SLePort
SLePort

Reputation: 15461

You can pipe your command to sed.

For one line output:

yourcommand | sed -n 's/.*: values=\(-*[^,]*\),.*/\1/p'

For multiline output:

yourcommand | sed -n ':a;$!N;s/\n/ /;ta;s/.*: values=\(-*[^,]*\),.*/\1/p'

The string between : values= and , is captured and output using backreference

Upvotes: 1

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