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Sorry for a noob question but I have a hard time to extract a string from another string and I'm sure one of you geeks has a simple answer for this.



I have a string like "domainnameusername" that I extract from a plist using defaults read. I got the domainname with cut -d '' -f1 but I can't get the username. I tried cut -d '' -f2 and cut -d '' -f3 and cut -d '' -f2 and I always end with an empty string. I'm sure it's all about escaping but I don't know enough yet to figure this out.



Thanks,
Dirk

string='domainnameusername'



username=echo $string | cut -d '' -f3



echo $username

I knew it was easy for you.



I tired to do everything in one line and that didn't work. Extracting the full string first to a temp variable and then using echo works perfectly. Lesson learned. Thanks!

You can get echo to do all the work for you:



#!/bin/bash



string='domainname\\username'



username=`echo ${string##*\\}`

domainname=`echo ${string%%\\*}`



echo $username

echo $domainname
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