On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:38 PM bruce <badoug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey. > > Simple question. > > Got a basic string.. > > http://venturacollege.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBHomePage?storeId=78236&campusId=78236&userId=-1002&catalogId=10001&ddkey=http:BNCBMultiCampusPageCmd > > trying to get the internal sub-string "78236" > > I can remove the beginning portion, but can't figureout the rest of the > regex to remove the subsequent chars.. > > awk -F': ' '{print $2}' | tail -1 | sed 's/.*storeId=\(.*\).&/\1/' > > Any help/pointers/thoughts.. > > thanks > >
Assuming $x contains the string, you can do this with pure bash: if [[ $x =~ storeId=([^&]*) ]]; then echo "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"; fi or with sed: echo $x | sed -e 's/.*storeId=\([^&]*\).*/\1/'
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