Extract particular text

Shell_Learner · #1 (**permalink**) 04-24-2009

I executed a following sed command
=> echo "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h" | sed 's/\/[A-Za-z0-9]*$//g'
a/b/c/d/e/f/g

Now what if I want to extract "g" from "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h" . That is second last string using SED.

Ygor · #2 (**permalink**) 04-24-2009

Try...

Code:

basename $(dirname "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h")

Shell_Learner · #3 (**permalink**) 04-24-2009

How will we do using SED?

Franklin52 · #4 (**permalink**) 04-24-2009

Try this:

Code:

$ echo "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h" | sed 's!.*/\(.*\)/.*!\1!'
g
$

panyam · #5 (**permalink**) 04-24-2009

Hi Shell_Learner,

In awk it's bit simple as follows:

Code:

echo "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h" |awk -F"/" '{ print $(NF-1) }'

might be needed for you in future

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