extracting certain characters 1

[macca007]

Hi all am fairly new to unix, and wat i have is certain file with the name 2342_dd2233_10.jpg

what i would like to do is extract the characters after the first _

so it would only show me dd2233

Could any of u's help me solve this

Cheers

 

[Ygor]

Try...
[tt] echo 2342_dd2233_10.jpg | cut -d_ -f2[/tt]

 

[Martin999]

Alternative :

awk -F_ '{print $2}' filename

Martin

 

[RodKnowlton]

shell-only alternative

FILE="2342_dd2233_10.jpg"
FILE=${FILE#*_}
FILE=${FILE%_*}
echo $FILE



Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L

 

[stefanwagner]

use sed

echo d_a34_b21.jpg | sed 's/[^_]*_//'
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