Split string in bash

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I'm trying to monitor some hung threads in an application server and I got this line.

[5/30/16 11:31:18:501 CDT] 00000655 ThreadMonitor W WSVR0606W: Thread "MessageListenerThreadPool : 38" (00000655) was previously reported to be hung but has completed. It was active for approximately 964450 milliseconds. There is/are 0 thread(s) in total in the server that still may be hung.

I need to obtain the 0 in "There is/are 0 thread(s)".
I tried to split it using cut, but everything was a mess. I also tried to use a delimiter, but the string is too long.
How can I split it?

janos · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-30 19:16:37Z

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You can use sed to capture the number between "There is/are " and " thread" and remove everything else, like this:

sed 's/.*There is\/are \([0-9]\+\) thread.*/\1/' file

answered May 30, 2016 at 19:16

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Pedro Lobito · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-30 19:34:37Z

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sed -nr 's/.*are ([0-9]+) thread.*/\1/p' file

-r, --regexp-extended
use extended regular expressions in the script.

-n, --quiet, --silent
suppress automatic printing of pattern space

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answered May 30, 2016 at 19:28

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