Re: Trouble with sed and semicolon delimiter...

On 19/01/2022 07.51, Tom Lynch wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> 	I'm having trouble with the sed portion of a bash script. I'm trying to get
> 	all the tags from BitBake recipes. I have the following line:
> 	
> 	SRC_URI = "git://bb/foo.git;protocol=ssh;tag=v1.1.0;lfs=0;subpath=pctrlmc/c2cmtd"

Are you sure that's what you have? When I execute that line, I get

$ SRC_URI = 
"git://bb/foo.git;protocol=ssh;tag=v1.1.0;lfs=0;subpath=pctrlmc/c2cmtd"
SRC_URI: command not found
$

(Give or take the gratuitous line-wrap inserted by Thunderbird)

> 	What I would like to get is the "v1.1.0" of the "tag=" portion

I know nothing about perl, so I can't help with that.

Can you just use sed?

$ 
SRC_URI="git://bb/foo.git;protocol=ssh;tag=v1.1.0;lfs=0;subpath=pctrlmc/c2cmtd"
$ echo $SRC_URI | sed 's/.*;tag=//' | sed 's/;.*//'
v1.1.0
$


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