Substring extraction using bash shell scripting and awk
- by rohanbk
So, I have a file called 'dummy' which contains the string:
"There is 100% packet loss at node 1".
I also have a small script that I want to use to grab the percentage from this file. The script is below.
result=`grep 'packet loss' dummy` |
awk '{ first=match($0,"[0-9]+%")
last=match($0," packet loss")
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