How to extract substring in Bash Shell

In this tutorial, How to extract substring in Bash Shell on Linux. You can use select substring from the string. The awk command has a few useful functions. It is a substr function.

Function substr mean Returns a substring.

The syntax

substr(S,P,N)

• P: starting at position
• N: it is returns N number of character’s from string S.

For example, I will use a string “HuuPV2123456789” with length is 15 and starting positions is 10.

$ echo "HuuPV2123456789" | awk '{ printf "%s", substr($0, 10, (length($0)-9)) }'

The result as below

456789

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