Question

I am writing a bash shell script. In there, I execute a command and save the output to a variable. The value is like this:

0x34f0020d4         4 0x434346000 test_string

How can I parse and save the value of the 3rd string (i.e. 0x434346000), assume the value is separated by space or tab?

Answer 1

Here’s one way using awk:

var=$(echo "$string" | awk '{ print $3 }')

Test:

echo "$var"

Results:

0x434346000