On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 05:02:46 PM Mick wrote: > I've been struggling to parse/split/substitute some names and numbers using > a spreadsheet and think that this task may be easier to achieve using > conventional *nix tools. The problem is I wouldn't know where to start. > > I have a directory with loads of images. Each image file name has a > description comprising hyphen-separated words and a part number, also hyphen > separated; e.g.: > > some-description-with-words-012-63099.jpg > > The number and length of the words change for each file. The part number > always has two components separated by a hyphen, but may also change in > length and acquire more/fewer digits. > > I need two outputs: > > 1. the description + " (per M²)", like so: > > some-description-with-words (per M²) > > 2. the part number, but replacing the hyphen with "/", like so: > > 012/63099 > > > I can list the directory contents and redirect all image file names into a > txt file. What I am looking for is some additional steps I can pipe it > through to obtain the two outputs, either in the same file or different > files. These file(s) are then imported into a spreadsheet template and > manipulated, before the result is ultimately exported from the spreadsheet > and uploaded to a server as a CSV file. > > Is this parsing, splitting and substitution exercise achievable? Any > suggestions to try out?
Does this help: echo "some-description-with-words-012-63099.jpg" | sed 's/\(.*\)-\(.*\)-\(.*\).jpg$/desc=\1 (per M²) part= \2\/\3 /' (All on 1 line) I get the following as output: desc=some-description-with-words (per M²) part= 012/63099 -- Joost
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