So I have a file with the text:
puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
I want to use the grep command
grep puddle2_1557936
Mixed in with the cut command (or another command if neccessary) to display just this part:
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
So far, I know that if do this
grep puddle2_1557936 | cut -d ":" -f1
then it will display
puddle2_1557936
So is there anyway to kind of "inverse" the delimiter cut command?
NOTE: The solution must start off with grep puddle2_15579636
.
You don't need to change the delimiter to display the right part of the string with cut
.
The -f
switch of the cut
command is the n-TH element separated by your delimiter : :
, so you can just type :
grep puddle2_1557936 | cut -d ":" -f2
Another solutions (adapt it a bit) if you want fun:
Using grep:
grep -oP 'puddle2_1557936:\K.*' <<< 'puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2'
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
or still with look around regex
grep -oP '(?<=puddle2_1557936:).*' <<< 'puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2'
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
or with sed:
sed -n 's/.*puddle2_1557936:\([^:]*\).*/\1/p' <<<'puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2'
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
or with perl:
perl -lne '/puddle2_1557936:(.*)/ and print $1' <<< 'puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2'
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
or using ruby (thanks to glenn jackman)
ruby -F: -ane '/puddle2_1557936/ and puts $F[1]' <<< 'puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2'
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
or with awk:
awk -F'puddle2_1557936:' '{print $2}' <<< 'puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2'
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
or with python:
python -c 'import sys; print(sys.argv[1].split("puddle2_1557936:")[1])' 'puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2'
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
or using only bash:
IFS=: read _ a <<< "puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2"
echo "$a"
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
js<<EOF
var x = 'puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2'
print(x.substr(x.indexOf(":")+1))
EOF
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2
php -r 'preg_match("/puddle2_1557936:(.*)/", $argv[1], $m); echo "$m[1]\n";' 'puddle2_1557936:/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2'
/home/rogers.williams/folderz/puddle2