Question

I have a log line that I am pulling from bash like:

There are 5 apples and 7 oranges

And I want to get the 5 and 7 into bash variables and am having problems doing so.

awk ‘{ print $3, $6 }’ won’t work due to the fact that their position might change, if there are bananas. Bonus points if the digits can be associated with their fruits.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

and to get the fruits:

echo 'There are 5 apples and 7 oranges' | grep -o -E '[[:digit:]]+ [[:alpha:]]+'