我喜欢sed处理正则表达式组的能力:

> var="someletters_12345_moreletters.ext"
> digits=$( echo "$var" | sed "s/.*_\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/p" -n )
> echo $digits
12345

一个更一般的选择是不要假设你用下划线_标记你的数字序列的开始，因此例如剥离你在你的序列之前得到的所有非数字:s/[^0-9]\+\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/p。

> man sed | grep s/regexp/replacement -A 2
s/regexp/replacement/
    Attempt to match regexp against the pattern space.  If successful, replace that portion matched with replacement.  The replacement may contain the special  character  &  to
    refer to that portion of the pattern space which matched, and the special escapes \1 through \9 to refer to the corresponding matching sub-expressions in the regexp.

更多关于这一点，以防你对regexp不太自信:

S代表_s_substitute [0-9]+匹配1+数字 \1链接到正则表达式输出的组n.1(组0是整个匹配，组1是括号内的匹配) P标志为_p_printing

所有转义\都是为了使sed的regexp处理工作。

以下是我的做法:

FN=someletters_12345_moreleters.ext
[[ ${FN} =~ _([[:digit:]]{5})_ ]] && NUM=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}

解释:

Bash-specific:

[[]]为条件表达式 =~表示条件为正则表达式 如果前一个命令成功，&&将链接这些命令

正则表达式(RE): _([[:digit:]]{5})_

_是字面量，用于为被匹配的字符串划分/锚定匹配边界 ()创建捕获组 [[:digit:]]是一个字符类，我认为它不言自明 {5}表示前面的字符中的恰好五个，类(如本例中所示)或组必须匹配

In english, you can think of it behaving like this: the FN string is iterated character by character until we see an _ at which point the capture group is opened and we attempt to match five digits. If that matching is successful to this point, the capture group saves the five digits traversed. If the next character is an _, the condition is successful, the capture group is made available in BASH_REMATCH, and the next NUM= statement can execute. If any part of the matching fails, saved details are disposed of and character by character processing continues after the _. e.g. if FN where _1 _12 _123 _1234 _12345_, there would be four false starts before it found a match.

这是一个substring.sh文件

使用

`substring.sh $TEXT 2 3` # characters 2-3

`substring.sh $TEXT 2` # characters 2 and after 

Substring.sh遵循这一行

#echo "starting substring"
chars=$1
start=$(($2))
end=$3

i=0
o=""
if [[ -z $end ]]; then
  end=`echo "$chars " | wc -c`
else
  end=$((end))
fi
#echo "length is " $e
a=`echo $chars | sed  's/\(.\)/\1 /g'`
#echo "a is " $a
for c in $a
do
  #echo "substring" $i $e $c
  if [[ i -lt $start ]]; then
    : # DO Nothing
  elif [[ i -gt $end ]]; then
    break;
  else
    o="$o$c"
  fi
  i=$(($i+1))
done
#echo substring returning $o
echo $o

没有任何子过程，您可以:

shopt -s extglob
front=${input%%_+([a-zA-Z]).*}
digits=${front##+([a-zA-Z])_}

一个非常小的变体也可以在ksh93中工作。

减少使用:

echo 'someletters_12345_moreleters.ext' | cut -d'_' -f 2

更通用的:

INPUT='someletters_12345_moreleters.ext'
SUBSTRING=$(echo $INPUT| cut -d'_' -f 2)
echo $SUBSTRING

基于jor的回答(这对我来说并不适用):

substring=$(expr "$filename" : '.*_\([^_]*\)_.*')