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BTW - I am trying to capture STDOUT so hence not read a 'file' but passing the string to awk via a pipe. $0 shows the whole string but $1 shows NULL so it doesn't seem to like the delimiters.
eg. I am trying this:
STR="bla bla bla [123] bla bla" #normally the stdout from a command line call of a software product
RUNID=`echo ${STR} | awk -F'[\\[\\]]' '{print $2}'`
echo ${ID}
There's probably a better way to do it but I haven't coded for years.
any ideas?
Try:
BTW, if you wanted to use backticks (`) and (") you would need to do this to make it work (not counting Scrutinizer's solution):
which is some terrible abomination to me
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