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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Extract string between two special chracters Post 303012024 by SIMMS7400 on Saturday 27th of January 2018 09:44:29 PM
Old 01-27-2018
Extract string between two special chracters
Hi Folks -

I'm trying to extract the string between two special characters, the "-" and "." symbols.

The string format is as such:
Code:
_PBCS_URL_PRD=https://plan-a503777.pbcs.us6.ocloud.com
_PBCS_URL_TST=https://pln-test-a503777.pbcs.us6.ocloud.com

In the above case, I need to extract "a503777".

Notice _PBCS_URL_TST has two "-" symbols.

I've tried the following with no success:

Code:
echo "${_PBCS_URL_PRD}" | sed -e 's/-\(.*\)./\1/g'

 

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