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parsingshellurl

Parse URL in shell script

I have url like:

sftp://[email protected]/some/random/path

I want to extract user, host and path from this string. Any part can be random length.

Solution

  • Using Python (best tool for this job, IMHO):

    #!/usr/bin/env python

import os
from urlparse import urlparse

uri = os.environ['NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI']
result = urlparse(uri)
user, host = result.netloc.split('@')
path = result.path
print('user=', user)
print('host=', host)
print('path=', path)

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