Good points. I wonder if it wouldn't be best to do it all in awk. Saves CPU cycles and complexity, IMHO.
Cheers, Boris. On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/12/2016 04:37 PM, bruce wrote: > >> awk -F': ' '{print $2}' | tail -1 | sed 's/.*storeId=\(.*\).&/\1/' >> > > > You've got good answers, especially Cameron's. It had one error, though. > If the URL is in a variable, it needs to be an argument to printf: > > url='http://venturacollege.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/ > servlet/BNCBHomePage?storeId=78236&campusId=78236&userId=- > 1002&catalogId=10001&ddkey=http:BNCBMultiCampusPageCmd' > store_id=$( printf '%s\n' | tr '?&' '\012\012' | sed -n 's/^storeId=//p' ) > > The reason I like Cameron's advice in particular is that it doesn't use > ".*". In this case, performance isn't measurably bad, but using ".*" can > eat a lot of CPU cycles. > > https://blog.mariusschulz.com/2014/06/03/why-using-in-regula > r-expressions-is-almost-never-what-you-actually-want > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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