Output formatting help needed.
 

Hi guys ,
I have a file which contains following string.(filename tempdisplay)
(location 0.0.0.0:5900)

i needed to write a script which will extract the string that comes after
0.0.0.0 i.e the string :5900.

I have used following method to extract the string :5900 .Is it a preferred way of doing the job?


sed s/"(location 0.0.0.0"/""/ tempdisplay > temp2display
#temp2display will now contain :5900)
temp=`sed s/")"/""/ temp2display`
#temp will now contain :5900
echo $temp

output:
:5900







Please help me with the syntax of the script.

so what have you tried...?if you have not started to learn shell scripting yet, see my sig to learn bash.

I m doing it using a sed program
but i think sed only takes input from a file.
but above mentioned string is a output of a command and i want the output should be formated according to my need.
can u help me out with this bro.

Is there any better way of doing this.

man cut

of course, one way
look at my sig for learning awk.

How can i remove ) from 5900) in just one line.

use gsub() or sub(). i repeat again. please start reading the docs (see my sig)

The simplest command that i have used is :grep -o ':[0-9]*' tempdisplay