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Old 03-16-2015
Need help in script

Hi,

I need help.

filename comes like this
Code:
20150217-v1-PH_THOMSON_Reuters_Bangkok_Conceptual_Ready_P20_170215

and i want to extract part of the string in the filename as "
Code:
PH_THOMSON_Reuters_Bangkok_Conceptual_Ready_P

". Could you please help me to extract the string.

Ouput :
Code:
PH_THOMSON_Reuters_Bangkok_Conceptual_Ready_P

Could you please help me

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 03-16-2015 at 02:21 PM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 03-16-2015
This will work only for the given format.
Code:
echo "20150217-v1-PH_THOMSON_Reuters_Bangkok_Conceptual_Ready_P20_170215"|cut -d'-' -f3

# 3  
Old 03-16-2015
I'm assuming that you are using a Bourne like shell. You could use parameter expansion.
Code:
filename=20150217-v1-PH_THOMSON_Reuters_Bangkok_Conceptual_Ready_P20_170215

filename=${filename%??_*} # remove the shortest match from the right side of the parameter

filename=${filename##*-} # remove the longest match from the left side of the parameter

echo $filename
PH_THOMSON_Reuters_Bangkok_Conceptual_Ready_P

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