How to split a string in shell and get the last field

by

You can use string operators:

$ foo=1:2:3:4:5
$ echo ${foo##*:}
5

This trims everything from the front until a ‘:’, greedily.

${foo  <-- from variable foo
  ##   <-- greedy front trim
  *    <-- matches anything
  :    <-- until the last ':'
 }

More Related Contents:

  1. How do I split a string on a delimiter in Bash?
  2. How can I remove the extension of a filename in a shell script?
  3. How to split one string into multiple strings separated by at least one space in bash shell?
  4. How to make the ‘cut’ command treat same sequental delimiters as one?
  5. Bash: Parse CSV with quotes, commas and newlines
  6. How to split a file into equal parts, without breaking individual lines? [duplicate]
  7. Using cut command to remove multiple columns
  8. How to strip out all of the links of an HTML file in Bash or grep or batch and store them in a text file
  9. Difference between single and double quotes in Bash
  10. An efficient way to transpose a file in Bash
  11. Usage of :- (colon dash) in bash
  12. What is the preferred Bash shebang?
  13. How to use aliases defined in .bashrc in other scripts?
  14. Bash script compare two date variables [duplicate]
  15. What is the difference between ${var}, “$var”, and “${var}” in the Bash shell?
  16. source command not found in sh shell
  17. How to check if a file contains a specific string using Bash
  18. How does this bash fork bomb work? [duplicate]
  19. How to view files in binary from bash?
  20. Test if a command outputs an empty string
  21. Unable to forward search Bash history similarly as with CTRL-r
  22. How to produce cartesian product in bash?
  23. Looping over arrays, printing both index and value
  24. Temporarily change current working directory in bash to run a command [duplicate]
  25. Generating random number between 1 and 10 in Bash Shell Script [duplicate]
  26. How to break out of a loop in Bash?
  27. How to assign a glob expression to a variable in a Bash script?
  28. Access arguments to Bash script inside a function [duplicate]
  29. What’s the difference between “here string” and echo + pipe
  30. Show Hexadecimal Numbers Of a File

Leave a Comment