Question

Given paths like this:

/data/mirrors/third-party/centos/5/projectA/x86_64
/data/mirrors/third-party/centos/5/projectA/i386
/data/mirrors/third-party/centos/5/projectA/noarch
/data/mirrors/third-party/centos/4/projectB/x86_64
/data/mirrors/third-party/centos/4/projectB/i386
/data/mirrors/third-party/centos/4/projectB/noarch
/data/mirrors/third-party/centos/4/projectC/x86_64
/data/mirrors/third-party/centos/4/projectC/i386
/data/mirrors/third-party/centos/4/projectC/noarch

How can I grab the values from field 5 and 7 (‘5’ and ‘x86_64’) using Bash shell commands?

I have something like this so far, but I’m looking for something more elegant, and without the need to capture the ‘junk*’:

cd /data/mirrors/third-party/centos/5/project/x86_64
echo `pwd` | tr '/' ' ' | while read junk1 junk2 junk3 junk4 version junk5 arch; do
    echo version=$version arch=$arch
done
version=5 arch=x86_64

Answer 1

You can use IFS and an array to split the directory into its components:

#!/bin/bash
saveIFS=$IFS
IFS='/'
dirs=($(pwd))
IFS=$saveIFS
version=${dirs[5]}
arch=${dirs[7]}