grep - put part of string into variable

Question

Hi there. I'm using swfdump to be able to get the ID number of an audio file. Here is what I'm using:

swfdump -D /Users/home/folder/file.swf | grep -i mp3

That is outputting: [00e] 28999 DEFINESOUND defines id 0006 (MP3 22Khz 16Bit mono)

What I need is the id #..in this case it is 0006. i want that number in a variable. Anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

var=$(swfdump -D /Users/home/folder/file.swf | sed '/MP3/s/.*id //;s/ (.*//')

or Bash

$ s=$(swfdump -D /Users/home/folder/file.swf)
$ var=${s/(MP3*}
$ echo $var
0006

Answer 2

the_id=`swfdump -D /Users/home/folder/file.swf | grep -i mp3 | cut -d' ' -f6`