Unix & Linux Asked by Abhijeet srivastava on October 31, 2021
I have a string which is concatenation of “key”:”value” pairs separated by “,” like-
KEY1:VALUE1, KEY2:VALUE2, KEY3:VALUE3
From this string, I have to grep for a specific string — let’s say KEY2 — so the output of our command should be VALUE2.
Use awk, read key:value pair as record, read key, value as 1st and 2nd field.
awk -v RS=' *, *' -v FS=' *: *' '$1=="KEY2"{print $2}' <<<$str
-v RS=' *, *'
set record separator to ,
and it's surrounding space-v FS=' *: *'
set field separator to :
and it's surrounding space'$1=="KEY2"{print $2}'
print value if key found. change "KEY2" to your desired key value.Answered by dedowsdi on October 31, 2021
To grep only the value
printf '%sn' "$myString" | grep -Po "(?<=KEY2:)[^,]*"
or
grep -Po "(?<=KEY2:)[^,]*" <<< "$myString"
Answered by bu5hman on October 31, 2021
With regular grep
assuming VALUE doesn't contain a colon:
grep -o 'KEY2:[^,]+' | grep -o '[^:]+$'
Answered by Thor on October 31, 2021
Using PCRE-enabled grep
implementations:
grep -Po '(^|[ ,])KEY1:K[^,]*'
or egrep
and cut
:
grep -Eo '(^|[ ,])KEY2:[^,]*' | cut -d: -f2-
For both methods, the Value is not allowed to contain comma.
If you had proper json
, e.g.
{ "KEY1":"VALUE1", "KEY2":"VALUE2", "KEY3":"VALUE3" }
you could use jq
:
$ jq .KEY2
"VALUE2"
$ jq -r .KEY2
VALUE2
Answered by pLumo on October 31, 2021
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