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。

Inklusive end，类似于JS和Java实现。删除+1如果你不想这样做。

function substring() {
    local str="$1" start="${2}" end="${3}"
    
    if [[ "$start" == "" ]]; then start="0"; fi
    if [[ "$end"   == "" ]]; then end="${#str}"; fi
    
    local length="((${end}-${start}+1))"
    
    echo "${str:${start}:${length}}"
} 

例子:

    substring 01234 0
    01234
    substring 012345 0
    012345
    substring 012345 0 0
    0
    substring 012345 1 1
    1
    substring 012345 1 2
    12
    substring 012345 0 1
    01
    substring 012345 0 2
    012
    substring 012345 0 3
    0123
    substring 012345 0 4
    01234
    substring 012345 0 5
    012345

更多示例调用:

    substring 012345 0
    012345
    substring 012345 1
    12345
    substring 012345 2
    2345
    substring 012345 3
    345
    substring 012345 4
    45
    substring 012345 5
    5
    substring 012345 6
    
    substring 012345 3 5
    345
    substring 012345 3 4
    34
    substring 012345 2 4
    234
    substring 012345 1 3
    123

基于jor的回答(这对我来说并不适用):

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

给定test.txt文件包含"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

cut -b19-20 test.txt > test1.txt # This will extract chars 19 & 20 "ST" 
while read -r; do;
> x=$REPLY
> done < test1.txt
echo $x
ST

也许这可以帮助你得到想要的输出

代码:

your_number=$(echo "someletters_12345_moreleters.ext" | grep -E -o '[0-9]{5}')
echo $your_number

输出:

12345

外壳切割-从字符串中打印特定范围的字符或给定部分

#method1)使用bash

 str=2020-08-08T07:40:00.000Z
 echo ${str:11:8}

#方法2)使用cut

 str=2020-08-08T07:40:00.000Z
 cut -c12-19 <<< $str

#method3)当使用awk时

 str=2020-08-08T07:40:00.000Z
 awk '{time=gensub(/.{11}(.{8}).*/,"\\1","g",$1); print time}' <<< $str