Extract particular text

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I executed a following sed command
=> echo "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h" | sed 's/\/[A-Za-z0-9]*$//g'
a/b/c/d/e/f/g

Now what if I want to extract "g" from "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h" . That is second last string using SED.

2

Try...

basename $(dirname "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h")
3

How will we do using SED?

4

Try this:

$ echo "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h" | sed 's!.*/\(.*\)/.*!\1!'
g
$
5

Hi Shell_Learner,

In awk it's bit simple as follows:

echo "a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h" |awk -F"/" '{ print $(NF-1) }'

might be needed for you in future :slight_smile: