Re: Trouble with sed and semicolon delimiter...

On Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 9:29:08 AM UTC-5, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

> > 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 

Yes, I should be more specific, this is the BitBake line I'm trying to parse to get the version from,
it's just an example. 
> 
> 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 

That is a possibility,  hadn't thought of breaking it into two sed commands...

Thanks
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> Michael F. Stemper 
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