string - Extract substring in Bash - Stack Overflow
Jan 9, 2009 · Well I'll note that I'm well aware of the efficiency and practicality of regexes in variable expansions, but I came here because I forgot how to get the ith-through-jth index …
linux - how to extract a substring in bash - Stack Overflow
Nov 30, 2016 · I have the following string in bash with length > 4 str = "abcdefghijklmno" and I want to extract into str2 the 5 first charachter of str. So str2="abcde" How to do it with bash?
Extract part of a string using bash/cut/split - Stack Overflow
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 …
How do I split a string on a delimiter in Bash?
May 28, 2009 · Split string based on delimiter in bash (version >=4.2) In pure bash, we can create an array with elements split by a temporary value for IFS (the input field separator). The IFS, …
How to check if a string contains a substring in Bash
I suppose this style is a bit more classic -- less dependent upon features of Bash shell. The -- argument is pure POSIX paranoia, used to protected against input strings similar to options, …
What linux shell command returns a part of a string?
Feb 28, 2017 · Extract substring in Bash asks for cutting out a sequence of characters surrounded by a certain delimiter. This question asks for cutting out a piece of a string giving numerical …
How to remove last n characters from a string in Bash?
Dec 26, 2014 · Ksh and Zsh do both support substring extraction, but require the explicit 0 start index; Zsh also supports the negative end index, while Ksh requires the length expression. …
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Jul 28, 2011 · I'm trying to get a substring from the start of a pattern. I would simply use cut, but it wouldn't work if the pattern is a few characters long. if I needed a single-character, delimiter, …
bash - Replace one substring for another string in shell script
73 It's better to use Bash than sed if strings have regular expression characters.
regex - bash, extract string before a colon - Stack Overflow
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