I thank all you guys! everything's working as needed.. if i get a few spare cycles i'll run a few tests to see what the time/diff would be between a few of the posts..
thanks (hopefully the answers will help others in the future.!) On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Boris Epstein <borepst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good points. I wonder if it wouldn't be best to do it all in awk. Saves > CPU cycles and complexity, IMHO. > > Cheers, > > Boris. > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> On 09/12/2016 04:37 PM, bruce wrote: >> >>> awk -F': ' '{print $2}' | tail -1 | sed 's/.*storeId=\(.*\).&/\1/' >>> >> >> >> You've got good answers, especially Cameron's. It had one error, >> though. If the URL is in a variable, it needs to be an argument to printf: >> >> url='http://venturacollege.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/ >> servlet/BNCBHomePage?storeId=78236&campusId=78236&userId=-10 >> 02&catalogId=10001&ddkey=http:BNCBMultiCampusPageCmd' >> store_id=$( printf '%s\n' | tr '?&' '\012\012' | sed -n 's/^storeId=//p' >> ) >> >> The reason I like Cameron's advice in particular is that it doesn't use >> ".*". In this case, performance isn't measurably bad, but using ".*" can >> eat a lot of CPU cycles. >> >> https://blog.mariusschulz.com/2014/06/03/why-using-in-regula >> r-expressions-is-almost-never-what-you-actually-want >> >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >
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