Bash/ Take substring from a string

Question

I run the next:

 find . -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -1

this return me the next:

1376221215.000000000 ./Rev.12345/run.exe

I want to get only the 12345 number. Which command I should use (I try to use cut command, without success)?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '13 at 09:26

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You can pipe the output to sed:

... | sed 's/.*Rev\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'

answered Aug 11 '13 at 09:26

hek2mgl

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 11 '13 at 09:26

2

You can pipe the output with:

awk -F '[./]+' '{print $4}'

answered Aug 11 '13 at 09:26

anubhava

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 11 '13 at 09:28

1

U can use grep also

... | grep -o Rev.[0-9]* s | grep -o [0-9]*

answered Aug 11 '13 at 09:28

Sakthi Kumar

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